“Are you imagining, as you read me, that I'm portraying myself? Have patience: this is merely my model.”
― Colette, Break of Day

Written in the first person, and often in the present tense, Break of Day introduces the shifting memoir-as-fiction form that was to become her distinctive medium; what Angela Carter described as "a peculiar form of literary striptease". 

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Used book: Excellent Condition

Translated by: Enid McLeod

Third Printing

Designed by: Jacqueline Schuman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Publication date: 1976

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK ISBN: 0-374-51221-3

Pages: 143