{"product_id":"a-certain-smile-lost-profile-both-by-francoise-sagan","title":"'A Certain Smile \u0026 Lost Profile' both by Françoise Sagan","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"558\"\u003eTwo slim novels full of glamour, restlessness, and emotional misbehaviour. Sold as a pair.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"943\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"563\" data-end=\"580\"\u003eA Certain Smile\u003c\/em\u003e, a young Parisian student drifts into an affair with an older married man, and Sagan turns what could have been a simple scandal into something cooler, sadder, and much more exacting. It is one of her cleanest books about youth, boredom, vanity, and the way desire can make people feel both more alive and less real. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1370\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"959\"\u003eLost Profile\u003c\/em\u003e is later Sagan, and a little darker: a novel of money, dependence, escape, and the uneasy bargains people make with one another in order to be rescued, or merely rearranged. Together they show both ends of her gift — the early icy brilliance and the later, more bruised sophistication — without losing that unmistakable Sagan atmosphere of luxury, drift, and damage. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage Penguin paperbacks by Françoise Sagan. \u003cem data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"129\"\u003eLost Profile\u003c\/em\u003e is the 1978 Penguin paperback, from Joanna Kilmartin’s English translation first published in 1976, \u003cem data-start=\"288\" data-end=\"305\"\u003eA Certain Smile\u003c\/em\u003e is a Penguin paperback reprint from 1975, from the English translation first published in 1956. Both in acceptable condition, reading copies and bring to the beach for sure.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283060453459,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T111749.142.png?v=1774743484","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/a-certain-smile-lost-profile-both-by-francoise-sagan","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}