{"product_id":"bonjour-tristesse-a-novel","title":"Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a New Major Motion Picture directed by Durga Chew-Bose and starring Lily McInerny, Chloë Sevigny, and Claes Bang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic. Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, \u003cem\u003eBonjour Tristesse\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's \u003cem\u003eBonjour Tristesse\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes an introduction by Diane Johnson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francoise Sagan","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253077590307,"sku":"9780061440793","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780061440793.jpg?v=1781811710","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/bonjour-tristesse-a-novel","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}