{"product_id":"2026200008636-secondhand-bonjour-tristesse","title":"Bonjour Tristesse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956369109211,"sku":"2026200008636-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bbe05f59-aca7-4f35-b40a-76f5c1821823.png?v=1783500392","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008636-secondhand-bonjour-tristesse","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}