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Coles Annette and Sylvie: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Romain Rolland opens Annette and Sylvie with a promise to follow inner life honestly, letting experience rather than doctrine reveal the shape of the story. That method gives the novel its intimate, searching power as it begins with Annette Rivière, a young woman suspended between springtime reverie and the first shock of mourning after her father's death. Beautiful, vigorous, and still unformed, she has long kept her emotions in check through disciplined study and scientific work, until grief and solitude force a deeper awakening. As Annette sorts through her father Raoul Rivière's papers, she confronts the hidden truth of the brilliant Parisian architect she adored: a charming, morally elusive man whose affairs, secrecy, and divided life left wounds she had never seen. Letters from other women, and especially from a daughter who calls him "Father," turn filial duty into betrayal, jealousy, and obsessive fascination. Annette's pursuit of this secret leads her to Sylvie, her half-sister, and the two women discover a fierce, unsettling love. In Burgundy, their bond deepens into a chosen pact of trust and protection, even as their temperaments—Sylvie's playful ease and Annette's tormented intensity—remain sharply, and poignantly, distinct. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
Romain Rolland opens Annette and Sylvie with a promise to follow inner life honestly, letting experience rather than doctrine reveal the shape of the story. That method gives the novel its intimate, searching power as it begins with Annette Rivière, a young woman suspended between springtime reverie and the first shock of mourning after her father's death. Beautiful, vigorous, and still unformed, she has long kept her emotions in check through disciplined study and scientific work, until grief and solitude force a deeper awakening. As Annette sorts through her father Raoul Rivière's papers, she confronts the hidden truth of the brilliant Parisian architect she adored: a charming, morally elusive man whose affairs, secrecy, and divided life left wounds she had never seen. Letters from other women, and especially from a daughter who calls him "Father," turn filial duty into betrayal, jealousy, and obsessive fascination. Annette's pursuit of this secret leads her to Sylvie, her half-sister, and the two women discover a fierce, unsettling love. In Burgundy, their bond deepens into a chosen pact of trust and protection, even as their temperaments—Sylvie's playful ease and Annette's tormented intensity—remain sharply, and poignantly, distinct. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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