Bonjour Tristesse, written when Sagan was only 18 years old, is a bittersweet tale of 17 year old Cecile, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.   Deceptively simple in structure, it is a complex and beautifully composed portrait of casual amorality and a young woman's desperate attempt to understand and control the world around her. Sagan's second book, A Certain Smile (Un certain sourire), is the story of Dominique, a twenty year old law student at the Sorbonne. When her boyfriend introduces her to his businessman uncle, she begins a love affair with the older man. “The reader is given the feeling of having opened a young girl’s intimate diary by mistake. But whoever put such a diary down? - especially when the author is as sensitive, experienced, gifted and freshly talented as Mlle. Sagan!” - San Francisco Examiner (review of A Certain Smile). Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Published by The Reprint Society in 1958. There are slight tears on the dust jacket. The book is in good condition and the binding is intact.