Bonjour Tristesse
$22.76
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2011
Summary
Teenager terrible Cecile explores her sexual freedom one hot summer on the French Riviera.
“Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father’s eyes they were imaginary… This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.”
The French Riviera – home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-yea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951569 |
| Author: | Irene Ash, Françoise Sagan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 70g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 113mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Critics Review
A funny, thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French tale
A funny, thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French tale * The Times *The novel that paved the way for the permissive society…one of the literary sensations of the century * Daily Telegraph *Francoise Sagan is the French F. Scott Fitzgerald * Guardian *
About The Author
Irene Ash
Françoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004.
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