{"product_id":"9781932511017","title":"Green Wheat: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1923, \u003ci\u003eGreen Wheat \u003c\/i\u003eis set in a villa in Brittany and is a story of burgeoning sexuality. This edition does more than meet Rogow’s mark \"to do justice to Colette’s enormous talent,\" it presents a great classic to the world once again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Translator’s Preface:\u003cbr\u003eOf her more than twenty books, \u003ci\u003eGreen Wheat \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps Colette’s most polished, most perfect. It was in Green Wheat that she achieved an exquisite blend of two of her greatest gifts as a fiction writer—her uncanny ability to fathom the hearts of adolescents, and her skill at describing nature with the phrasing of a poet and the colors and light of a great landscape painter. This combination helps make \u003ci\u003eGreen Wheat \u003c\/i\u003eone of the enduring works of fiction of the last 100 years. . . . Ultimately, the book is a story about the loss of Eden, both of youth and of nature. . . . It is about the loss of a type of hope, a hope that many of us cling to, that love can somehow escape the imperfections of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZack Rogow translates French literature and was a co-winner of the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award for \u003ci\u003eEarthlight\u003c\/i\u003e, by André Breton, as well as winner of a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (BABRA) for his translation of George Sand’s novel, \u003ci\u003eHorace\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of a new anthology of U.S. poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Face of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published by University of California Press in 2004. He teaches in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at the California College of Arts \u0026amp; Crafts and lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColette, whose real name was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, was born in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in Burgundy, France in 1873 and died in Paris in 1954. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eGigi \u003c\/i\u003e(1944), \u003ci\u003eThe Vagabond \u003c\/i\u003e(1912), \u003ci\u003eCheri \u003c\/i\u003e(1929), and \u003ci\u003eThe Last of Cheri \u003c\/i\u003e(1932). She is considered one of the great novelists of the 20th century. Among her many awards, Colette was made a member of the Belgian Royal Academy in the 1930s and was also the first woman to be admitted to the prestigious Goncourt Academy. In 1953 she became a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. She is a legendary figure who lived a colorful and bohemian life and her writings are rich with the joys and pain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059542671600,"sku":"9781932511017","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781932511017_p0.jpg?v=1763641353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932511017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}