Bonjour Tristesse - A Novel

A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father''s love life leads to tragic consequences. 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. 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 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. This special Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Diane Johnson and a P.S. section with additional insights about the book and author.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Francoise Sagan, Françoise Sagan, Francoise/ Johnson Sagan
• Collaboration: Irene Ash (Traduction)
• Edition: Ecco Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 17.06.2008
• EAN: 9780061440793
• ISBN: 978-0-06-144079-3
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 181 mm x 9 mm
• Thèmes: HarperPerennial Modern Classics; HarperPerennial Modern Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Romance, Anthologies: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, Plays, Playscripts, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Holidays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Feminist, FICTION: Romance / Holiday *, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary, Harper Perennial Classics / Fiction