{"product_id":"bonjour-tristesse-a-novel-by-francoise-sagan","title":"Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel by Francoise Sagan","description":"A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic\u003cbr\u003eSet against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse 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.\u003cbr\u003eEndearing, 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. 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 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.\u003cbr\u003eThis special Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Diane Johnson and a P.S. section with additional insights about the book and author.","brand":"BUST-DOWN BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50533162778939,"sku":"0061440795","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/23697823482209.jpg?v=1755994196","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/bonjour-tristesse-a-novel-by-francoise-sagan","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}