Divorce, Le by Diane Johnson
NATIONAL BOK AWARD FINALIST If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson.--San Francisco ChronicleThe national bestseller and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Kate Hudson Called stylish. refreshing. genuinely wise by The New York Times Book Review, this delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian society--until her husband leaves her for the wife of an American lawyer. Could le divorce be far behind? Can irrepressible Isabel keep her perspective (and her love life) intact as cultures and human passions collide? Social comedy at its best (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Le Divorce is Diane Johnson at her most scintillating and sublime.
Diane Johnson is the author of many novels, including Persian Nights, Health and Happiness, Laying Low, The Shadow Knows, and Burning, as well as the bestselling novel Le Divorce, which was a National Book Award finalist. For Persian Nights, she was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and she co-wrote the script for The Shining with Stanley Kubrick. She spends time in both San Francisco and Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525942382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525942386 |
| Title | Divorce, Le |
| Author | Diane Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Dutton Books |
| Year published | 1997-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Awards (Fiction) 1997 |
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