The Gigolo

Françoise Sagan

ফেব ২০১৮ · Penguin UK

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'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create'

A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband is suspected of infidelity; and a dying man reflects on his extramarital affairs, in these tales of love and disillusionment from the author of Bonjour Tristesse.

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Françoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004.