Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

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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... read more

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Cécile: 17-year-old girl devoid of morality.
Raymond: Cécile's bachelor father.
Anne Larsen: Father's old friend who Cécile is threatened by.
Elsa Mackenbourg: Raymond's bombshell girlfriend
Cyril: Student and Cécile's boyfirend
Charles Webb: Old friend of Raymond

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A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

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This is book 41 of 99 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century. (authoritative list)

This is book 4 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 1955. (authoritative list)

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

This is book 503 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

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Françoise Sagan (Author)

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Original Language: French
Publisher: Julliard
Country: France
Publication Date: 1954
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Page Count: 188

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Dewey: 813

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Reading Level: Young Adults

There are sexual themes and a person commits suicide.

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Books › Literature & Fiction › Foreign Language Fiction › French
Books › Reference › Foreign Languages
Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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Bonjour Tristesse (IMDb): USA (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg, David Niven and Deborah Kerr.

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