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Ariane, A Russian Girl (New York Review Classics)

Penned By Claude Anet
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Ariane, A Russian Girl (New York Review Classics)

Penned By Claude Anet
4.85 13,307 Ratings
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In this long-overdue translation of the novel that inspired the 1957 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper film Love in the Afternoon , a young woman finds independence and love with an older man in pre-revolutionary Moscow—a relationship depicted with a complexity and sexual frankness that feels remarkably ahead of its time.Ariane, A Russian Girl, the tale of a young girl in pre-revolutionary Russia who is unafraid to exercise her sexual independence, is the basis for the Audrey Hepburn film Love in the Afternoon , though the book has a much sharper edge than the film.Beautiful, spirited, brilliant Ariane is seventeen and lives with her aunt in the provinces. Determined to go to Moscow to study at university, Ariane is perfectly willing to use her looks and charm on men the better to get ahead.Once settled in Moscow, Ariane meets Constantine Michel, a man of the world who casually proposes an affair, while warning her not to grow too attached to him. Soon enough the two are involved, even as it is Ariane, increasingly, who holds Constantine at bay emotionally, deploying irony and cynicism and often leaving him at a loss.Constantine, fascinated and infuriated, grows resentfully aware he does not know much of anything about Ariane, whom, among other things, he had taken to be a good deal older than, on her eighteenth birthday, he discovers her to be.What is she holding back? What is she trying to prove? What is the true story of Ariane and how it will end? A story of eros and love to equal the best of Colette, Ariane, A Russian Girl is a realistic and gripping story about vulnerability and determination and what it means to grow up.

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Claude Anet is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Claude Anet enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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