![]() Translated by Heather Lloyd Only available as part of our 3 for £27 Little Clothbound Classics Summer Collection collection. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004. Bonjour Tristesse, published in 1954 when she was just nineteen, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. But when her father decides to remarry, their perfect world becomes clouded by tragedy.įrançoise Sagan was born in France. The novel concerns the life of a pleasure-driven 17-year-old named Ccile and her relationship with her boyfriend and her widowed playboy father. ![]() It was an immediate international success. On holiday on the French Riviera, she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. Sagan's first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), was published in 1954, when she was 18 years old. Late into the night we talked of love and its complicationsīonjour Tristesse is the story of seventeen-year-old Cécile, and one long, hot summer that will change her life.Ĭécile leads a golden, carefree existence with her widowed playboy father and his mistresses. ![]() ![]() A very good (or better) book with spotting to the page. ![]() Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, first printing published by John Murray in 1955. ![]()
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