Le marriage : a novel
Johnson, Diane
Le marriage : a novel / Diane Johnson - New York : Dutton Book , 2000 - 322 p. ; 24 cm. - Follow up of the book Le Divorce .
From the author of Le Divorce, comes a comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris. Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the possession of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. As Tim, Anne-Sophie, a pair of American antique dealers, and one amorous member of the local gentry converge on the director's chateau, the director's wife - a former actress - is accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; and murder, and you have this sexy, stylish, delight of a novel that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage and morality as they are perceived on both sides of the Atlantic.
English
9780525945185
Americans in Paris---Fiction
Journalists----Fiction
Manuscripts---Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
PS3553.H486 / G46 2012
FIC JOH
Le marriage : a novel / Diane Johnson - New York : Dutton Book , 2000 - 322 p. ; 24 cm. - Follow up of the book Le Divorce .
From the author of Le Divorce, comes a comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris. Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the possession of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. As Tim, Anne-Sophie, a pair of American antique dealers, and one amorous member of the local gentry converge on the director's chateau, the director's wife - a former actress - is accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; and murder, and you have this sexy, stylish, delight of a novel that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage and morality as they are perceived on both sides of the Atlantic.
English
9780525945185
Americans in Paris---Fiction
Journalists----Fiction
Manuscripts---Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
PS3553.H486 / G46 2012
FIC JOH
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