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Title: L'Affaire by Diane Johnson ISBN: 0-525-94740-X Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "A L'AFFAIRE To Remember"
Comment: European culture clashes head-on with American attitude in the delightful "L'AFFAIRE" by entertaining storyteller Diane Johnson. Award-winning author of Le Divorce tells the story of a young woman in search of a little excitment in her life so she leaves California for a ski resort in the French Alps, but (by the skin of her chin) surviving an avalanche on her first afternoon at the ski resort is not exactly what she had in mind on her quest for excitment...nor was falling in love a part of the equation. (Fun Story...Fun Writer!)
Rating: 4
Summary: L'Affaire francaise: a life on the cusp.
Comment: Not surprisingly, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Diane Johnson, has been compared to Henry James in her portrayals of Americans abroad. Like James, her writing is insightful and refined. In her follow up to LE DIVORCE (1997) and LE MARIAGE (2000), Johnson returns to the chasm of cultural differences Americans experience in France. L'AFFAIRE is a subtle and sophisticated comedy of manners that examines the exploits of Amy Hawkins, an inexperienced thirty-year-old Californian, on her quest for cultural self improvement while vacationing in the French Alps. In her escape from the freeways, Burger Kings, gas stations, traffic, garage door openers, war, religious fundamentalists, and ugliness of America (p. 330), and in little more than a month, Amy not only to learns to speak French, ski, and make cream soups, but she also lands herself in legal trouble by contributing to the death of a comatose patient, Adrian Venn. And--Mon Dieu!--if this isn't enough of international predicament for her, Amy's sexual course of "noisy moans and cries" into the wee hours, while becoming a "better-rounded person," results in an inner disappointment more commonly known as a broken heart. Witty and entertaining, this is an AFFAIRE with French culture to be savored.
G. Merritt
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely an Affaire, not a Liason
Comment: In addition to her usual sharp observations of cultural differences, Ms. Johnson has really nailed the complex differences in the inheritance laws of England and France, and makes good use of them in the story's development. The Affaire concerns questionnable activities of lawyers on both sides of the Channel.
As others have noted, the ending is not so strong as the first 3/4 of the book; perhaps the publisher set a page limit.
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Title: Le Mariage by Diane Johnson ISBN: 0452282268 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Le Divorce by Diane Johnson ISBN: 0452277337 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant ISBN: 037541181X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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