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Le Divorce
Product Group: Book
Publisher: HarperAudio (2003-05)
ISBN: 0060523468
EAN: 9780060523466
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Release Date: 2003-05-27
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Imagine the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady sporting a stylish haircut, miniskirt, and sunglasses, and you have Isabel Walker, the heroine of this incandescent novel. Le Divorce follows this smart, sexy American abroad as she arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, whose marriage into an aristocratic French family has assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But Roxy's husband has just left her for the Czechoslovakian wife of an American lawyer. Could 'le divorce' be far behind? This bestselling novel -- a delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder -- is as wickedly funny as it is deeply insightful. At the center of it all is the irrepressible Isabel -- captivated by Paris and a handsome, worldly French diplomat -- and trying to keep her perspective as cultures and human passions collide.
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Amazon.com Review
Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New--in fact, it provides an ironic scrim.
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Retail Price: $39.95
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