Bonjour Tristesse (Penguin Great Loves) - Softcover

Sagan, Francoise

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9780141032917: Bonjour Tristesse (Penguin Great Loves)

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ISBN 10: 014103291X ISBN 13: 9780141032917

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

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C�cile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France, she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

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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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