Bonjour Tristesse

<p><strong>Now a New Major Motion Picture directed by Durga Chew-Bose and starring Lily McInerny Chloë Sevigny and Claes Bang</strong></p><p><strong>A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic. 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.</strong></p><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. 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.</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><p>This edition includes an introduction by Diane Johnson.</p>