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Bonjour Tristesse
  • ISBN: 9780241951569
  • Pages: 112
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan
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Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager Cécile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.

The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cécile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures.

But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cécile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences.

‘Funny, thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French tale’ The Times



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