Le Divorce

By: Diane Johnson

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Paperback | 6 February 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her own sentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialism and an older man - her sister's marriage disintergrates into bitter Franco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting. With a sharp tongue and an ironic eye for the foibles of the Parisian bourgeoisie, the French art world and American ex-patriots, Isabel is a collector of experience, even those she can't control. Comedy veers suddenly close to tragedy as passionate jealousy, self-interest and artistic intrigue interweave.

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Paris - and the French - through the eyes of a young Californian. Isabel's sister Roxy has married a Frenchman. Pregnant with her second child she has been deserted. Isabel, ignorant of the language and customs but caught up in the acrimony of a foreign divorce, and her own liaison with an elderly Frenchman, begins to be, bemusedly, in love with 'Frenchness', until money (a great deal) and a shocking death, stretch the membrane of tolerance holding Europe and America together to near-disintegration. Shrewd, sophisticated, perspicacious - and strongly recommended. (Kirkus UK)

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