NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."--
San Francisco ChronicleThe 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.
Author: Diane Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/01/1998
Series: William Abrahams Book
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.37w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780452277335
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s): New York Times 11/30/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97
About the AuthorDiane Johnson is the author of the bestselling novel
Le Divorce, a National Book Award finalist, as well as many other novels, including
Persian Nights, Health and Happiness, Lying Low, The Shadow Knows, and
Burning. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for
Persian Nights, and she co-authored the screenplay to
The Shining with Stanley Kubrick. She divides her time between San Francisco and Paris.