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Timothy Gray approved Halie’s request to combine 8 books, including Bonjour Tristesse, Sunday, August 30 2009.
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Halie submitted a request to combine 8 books, including Bonjour Tristesse, Sunday, August 23 2009.
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Shelfari edited the description of Bonjour Tristesse Saturday, August 1 2009.
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. The 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.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Bonjour Tristesse Thursday, July 23 2009.
- Added a contributor: Francoise Sagan: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Bonjour Tristesse Thursday, July 16 2009.
- A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.
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