The Vagabond
252 pages
|Published: 6 Nov 2010
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ISBN: 9780374528041
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Description
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of letters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved, and her need to have a life and work of her own.