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HARPER PERENNIAL Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Endearing selfabsorbed seventeenyearold Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school she joins her fathera handsome stillyoung widower with a wandering eyefor a carefree twomonth summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress Elsa. Cécile cherishes the freespirited 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 mothers best friend Anne intrudes upon a young girls pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart.with tragic unexpected consequences.
The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenagers attempts to understand and control the world around her Françoise Sagans Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.