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.

Author Biography

Franpoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succos 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.