Bonjour Tristesse - (P.S.) by Francoise Sagan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic - now in a P.S. edition, with the Diane Johnson introduction.</strong></p> <p>Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, <em>Bonjour Tristesse</em> is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.</p><p>Freed from boarding school, Cecile lives in unchecked enjoyment with her youngish, widowed father -- an affectionate rogue, dissolute and promiscuous. Having accepted the constantly changing women in his life, Cecile pursues a sexual conquest of her own with a tall and almost beautiful law student. Then, a new woman appears in her father's life. Feeling threatened but empowered, Cécile sets in motion a devastating plan that claims a surprising victim.</p><p>Deceptively simple in structure, <em>Bonjour Tristesse</em> is a complex and beautifully composed portrait of casual amorality and a young woman's desperate attempt to understand and control the world around her.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's <em>Bonjour Tristesse</em> is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.</p>
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