Rachel Unkefer reviewed Chéri and the End of Chéri by Colette
Millennial Angst from the Previous Millennium
4.0 stars
The best part of this book is the second half, which was a sequel to the first. The first half depicts a middle-aged Parisian woman's affair with a late-teenaged boy, and the second half focuses on that boy/man after coming back from serving in WWI to a world that no longer makes sense to him. The writing is evocative but not flowery, unsentimental and sometimes scathing.