Gigi - Softcover

Colette; Senhouse, Roger

3.63

2,037 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0146001133 ISBN 13: 9780146001130

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1995

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Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 5 female

Scenery: 2 Interiors

This is the classic story of a young girl who wins at the game of love. Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and Aunt Alicia, an old-school courtesan, to be a stylish coquette and set her sights on a rich man. When Gaston visits, he brings her candy and lets her cheat at cards, captivated by her girlish ways. Now 16, Gigi is ripe to put away childish things and prepare to become Gaston's mistress. The clever girl however, has other plans...

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'A perpetual feast to the reader...her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful' Raymond Mortimer

About the Author:

Born in California, Anita Loos(1893 1981) was herself a celebrity of the Jazz Age that produced Lorelei Lee. She began writing movie scripts by the time she was twelve, and before her death in 1981 she had written an enormous number of stories, screenplays, and more. She was also the author of an autobiography, A Girl Like I.

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