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Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, Irene Ash, Diane Johnson

ISBN: 9780061440793
Release Date: 01 Jun 2008
Average rating: (read by 13 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile 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. Cecile 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, Cecile 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, Francoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.

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	Fantod Full Review
	Rated it 10 months ago

This is a great summer read, if you enjoyed Fitzgerlad’s Tender id the Night you should enjoy this. It tells the story of beautiful precocious Cecile who is spending the summer on the French Riviera in a villa with her father. They live a dream-like...

	bluestarfish
	Rated it 10 months ago

Fascinating story. I was enthralled throughout.

	JustinBrumfitt
	Rated it 4 months ago

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