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Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.
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Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Bonjour Tristesse
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Françoise Sagan
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0241951569
- ISBN13
- 9780241951569
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Coming Of Age, Novellas, Young Adult Romance, Teens, Jealousy
- Original title
- Bonjour tristesse a Un certain sourire
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.