
TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSELea de Lonval is a magnificent & aging courtesan facing the end of her career She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome & spoilt Cheri
- a playboy half her age When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Cheri Lea reluctantly decides their relationship must end But neither lover can forsee how deeply they are connected or how much they will have to give up First published in 1920 it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust & Andre Gide as a masterpiece I devoured Cheri at a gulp What a wonderful subject & with what intelligence mastery & understanding of the least-admitted secrets of the flesh' Andre Gide