DEAR SARAH BERNHARDT. de Sagan, Francoise - (1988)

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First US printing. Sarah Bernhardt was considered the greatest actress who ever lived - she dominated the stage not only in her native France, but throughout the world for sixty years - literally until the week she died in 1923. .. "Not wanting to write a traditional biography, Francoise Sagan hit upon the daring device of an imaginary correspondence between Sarah Bernhardt and herself, giving Bernhardt a first-person voice and a dimension that no mere biography could have captured. The result is a brilliant, lively, intimate exchange between the two impetuous women." Translated from the French by Sabine Destree. Illustrated with photographs. 231 pp.