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Bonjour Tristesse

Author: Irene Ash and Françoise Sagan   Series: Penguin Essentials

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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.

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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.

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Teenager terrible Cecile explores her sexual freedom one hot summer on the French Riviera'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 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. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cecile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences.Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cecile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.

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Critic Reviews

“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

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About the Author

Fran oise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succ s 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.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
7th April 2011
Pages
112
ISBN
9780241951569

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