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That Mad Ache

About the Author

As a teen-ager, Fran&ccediloise Sagan (1935-2004) rocketed to world renown with her Prize-winning and best-selling novel Bonjour Tristesse. She went on to write many other successful novels, including A Certain Smile and Aimez-vous Brahms, as well as numerous plays and memoirs. Douglas Hofstadter is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book G&oumldel, Escher, Bach. Among his more recent works are Le Ton beau de Marot, a verse translation of Alexander Pushkin's novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin, and I Am a Strange Loop. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.