Bonjour Tristesse
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
First published in France in 1954, Bonjour Tristesse is a landmark of twentieth-century French literature — a slim, seductive novel narrated by Cécile, a pleasure-seeking seventeen-year-old who spends a languid summer on the French Riviera with her charming, womanising father and his latest lover. The novel charts a season of sun-drenched idleness, casual romance, and moral ambiguity, until Cécile orchestrates a calculated scheme to rid herself of her father's new companion — a plan with devastating and irreversible consequences. Written with cool, unsentimental precision, Sagan captures the restless amorality of youth with a voice that is at once disarming and ruthless. A sensation upon its release — written when Sagan herself was just eighteen — Bonjour Tristesse remains a defining portrait of desire, manipulation, and the bittersweet awakening of conscience.
Author: Françoise Sagan
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Penguin
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
First published in France in 1954, Bonjour Tristesse is a landmark of twentieth-century French literature — a slim, seductive novel narrated by Cécile, a pleasure-seeking seventeen-year-old who spends a languid summer on the French Riviera with her charming, womanising father and his latest lover. The novel charts a season of sun-drenched idleness, casual romance, and moral ambiguity, until Cécile orchestrates a calculated scheme to rid herself of her father's new companion — a plan with devastating and irreversible consequences. Written with cool, unsentimental precision, Sagan captures the restless amorality of youth with a voice that is at once disarming and ruthless. A sensation upon its release — written when Sagan herself was just eighteen — Bonjour Tristesse remains a defining portrait of desire, manipulation, and the bittersweet awakening of conscience.