L'Affaire Trade paperback. - 2004
by Johnson, Diane
- Used
- Paperback
- first
A story of Americans abroad and the melange of Europeans they encounter, in affairs of both the heart and of business, "L'Affaire" firmly upholds the true comic-literary talent of a writer of whom the "San Francisco Chronicle" wrote, "If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."
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- Title L'Affaire
- Author Johnson, Diane
- Binding Trade Paperback.
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Vg- In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Small Chip Lower Rear Cover. Pages: 340.
- Pages 340
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume / Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # MASTER156049I
- ISBN 9780452285637 / 0452285631
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.76 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.93 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003013725
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In Diane Johnson’s L’Affaire, Amy Hawkins, a smart, pretty Palo Alto girl who made herself a dot-com fortune, goes to France to get a sheen of sophistication and, perhaps, to have an affair that will ruffle her all-too-steady heart. Amy starts her quest in the French Alps in the town of Valméri, amid an assortment of aristocrats and ski enthusiasts.
When two of the hotel’s guests, esteemed English publisher Adrian Venn and his much younger American wife, Kerry, are swept away by an avalanche, Adrian’s children—young, old, legitimate, illegitimate—assemble in Valméri to protect their interests.
Amy, already suspect because she is American, steps in to assist, and unintentionally sets in motion a series of events that spotlight ancient national differences, customs, and laws. Filled with love, sex, death, and travel, L’Affaire is Diane Johnson at her very best in a comedy of contemporary manners played out between the sexes as they stumble over cultural barriers and slam into cultural stereotypes.
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- New York Times, 10/03/2004, Page 34
