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Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel (P.S.)
Francoise Sagan
Harper Perennial
June 2008
On Sale: June 17, 2008
160 pages
ISBN: 0061440795
EAN: 9780061440793
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Women's Fiction
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the
very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the
stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her
father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—
for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful
villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa.
Cécile 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, Cécile 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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