Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile, Francoise Sagan. The Reprint Society, 1958.
Vintage hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is in fair condition; has some heavy wear to edges. Previous owner has repaired some tears to jacket with scotch tape. Some small chips to edges. Black boards are clean, binding is tight. No markings inside. Overall good condition.
Françoise Sagan was a French novelist and dramatist. She wrote her most well-known work, Bonjour Tristesse, in 1954 when she was 18 years old. She would go on to produce 20 other novels, three short story collections, nine plays, two biographies and several non-fiction pieces. A Certain Smile (1956) was her second novel, and is considered a sequel to her first. "These two novels, so spare and rigorous, so artistically correct, so thorough in their psychological realism, are the highest expression of the triangular purity of their author’s strange and beautiful esthétique." (Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker, 2004).