A Few Hours of Sunlight

Françoise Sagan

Harper&Row

A Certain Smile

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Wonderful Clouds

As erotic and sophisticated as ever, Françoise Sagan's latest novel again maps out the complexities and ironies in the relationships between men and women, offering some stringent observations on the lives of the very, very rich.\n'As a constant admirer of Miss Sagan's work, I was pleased to find her latest novel, Lost Profile, not only up to her established standards but really among the best of her oeuvre. Swift, graceful and well-equipped, with a goodly assortment of those zestful insights peculiar to Miss Sagan' - Truman Capote

Lost Profile

Penguin

Painting in Blood

Penquin Books

Scars on the soul: A novel

Deutsch

A group of hedonistic passengers enjoy nightly musical entertainments and their own impromptu activities on a Mediterranean cruise aboard a luxury yacht

Painted Lady (A Star book)

Star

Brigitte Bardot: Woman from Thirty to Forty

DELACORTE PRESS

BOOKSTORE STAMP ON FIRST PAGE. NO OTHER WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES. MINOR WEAR ON EDGES OF COVERS.

The Unmade Bed

Dell

That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960’s, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart’s instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title La Chamade, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English.
In Translator, Trader, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan’s novel La Chamade in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view, literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on translation, Translator, Trader is a witty and intimate exploration of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness.

That Mad Ache: A Novel

United States

Basic Books

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