| Le Divorce Contributor(s): Johnson, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452277337 ISBN-13: 9780452277335 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: In the grand tradition of Edith Wharton, "Le Divorce" delightfully recounts the adventures of two sisters from California who make a modern pilgrimage to Paris, the City of Light. "Sexy, graceful, and funny".--"New York Review of Books". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Media Tie-in - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96009644 |
| Series: William Abrahams Book |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.37" W x 8.01" (0.58 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson.--San Francisco Chronicle The 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. |