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BONJOUR TRISTESSE: A NOVEL (P.S.) By : Francoise Sagan
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Women's Fiction
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CΓ©cile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherβa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeβ for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CΓ©cile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, CΓ©cile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.
The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.
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