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A Certain Smile
by Francoise Sagan (Deceased)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
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Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
1956
. Hardcover//Collec. Used.Francoise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less shocking and more psychologically convincing, was preferred by many critics. Like Bonjour Tristesse, this story is set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, thoughtless and insightful, Sagan's young narrator explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.
Synopsis
A Certain Smile (known in French as Un certain sourire), written in a two month period then published in 1956, is Françoise Sagan's second book. It tells of a student's love affair with a middle-aged man.
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- Bookseller
- Petes Loved Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Product_46
- Title
- A Certain Smile
- Author
- Francoise Sagan (Deceased)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.NO DUST JACKET //Collec
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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