n nEndearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old C cile 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, Elsa. C cile 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 mothers best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girls pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, C cile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.n nThe internationally beloved story of a precocious teenagers attempts to understand and control the world around her, Fran oise Sagans Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.n