Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) was only eighteen when her first novel, BONJOUR TRISTESSE, was published. Her other novels include INCIDENTAL MUSIC, A CERTAIN SMILE and THE PAINTED LADY.
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.