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17%OFFFrancoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse - 9780241951569 - V9780241951569
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Bonjour Tristesse

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Description for Bonjour Tristesse Paperback. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, 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. Translator(s): Ash, Irene. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 70.

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'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 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241951569
SKU
V9780241951569
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About Francoise Sagan
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.

Reviews for Bonjour Tristesse
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

Goodreads reviews for Bonjour Tristesse


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