{"product_id":"dear-sarah-bernhardt-by-francoise-sagan","title":"'Dear Sarah Bernhardt' by Françoise Sagan","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"480\"\u003eA short, theatrical fictional portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Françoise Sagan, written as an intimate act of literary ventriloquism.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"480\"\u003eSagan imagines Bernhardt from the inside: proud, dramatic, vain, wounded, amused by herself, alert to money, admiration, insult, stagecraft, beauty, and the uses of scandal. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"978\"\u003eVery much one for the Sagan shelf if you know and love her, but also for readers interested in theatre, women artists, celebrity before celebrity, and the cultivated drama of public life. Bernhardt appears here not as a museum figure but as someone alive to appetite, humiliation, ambition and glamour — a woman turning herself into an event before modern fame had quite learned its own machinery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"978\"\u003eElegant, slightly camp, sharp around the edges, and much more interesting than a plain “life of” treatment would have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1361\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition published by Macmillan London in 1989. Originally published in France as \u003cem data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1135\"\u003eSarah Bernhardt: Le rire incassable\u003c\/em\u003e in 1987; this English translation first published in the US by Seaver Books \/ Henry Holt in 1988. Good second-hand hardback condition, with light handling, mild page toning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45689749405779,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_81.png?v=1781163109","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/dear-sarah-bernhardt-by-francoise-sagan","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}