Colette · 1900
A French novella about a young courtesan in training who unexpectedly falls in love with an older man of the demimonde.
Andrew Sean Greer says it taught him that a novel can leave things hanging and give the reader room to invent.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Well, like one, this feels like a foolish example, but it's it's it's I think the first moment I realized that you can do anything you want was reading an old novel by Colette, a French writer.”
Why: It taught him that a novel can leave things hanging and give the reader room to invent.
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