A FEW HOURS OF SUNLIGHT

by Francoise Sagan ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 7, 1971

Another tryst with tristesse, actually a deep depression, since Gilles, a newspaperman in his mid-thirties, finds that he has lost interest in everything and everyone to the point of utter diffidence about his work and ineffectuality in bed. A doctor gives him some pills and assures him he will either get better or worse. He goes to his sister in the provinces where the beautiful, assured, direct, unafraid and ne plus understanding Nathalie restores him to life and gives up everything to return to Paris with him. There, falling away gradually (actually Gilles is so narcissistic he's the next best thing to a bounder) he precipitates the final tragedy. Gilles of course is one of those pale young men who prowl through French literature converting the romantic sensibility into a kind of self-indulgent sentimentality, and Mlle. Sagan handles her perishable little story in her usual fashion -- the tone is one of helpless, intimate and facile involvement.

Pub Date: April 7, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION