Le Mariage

by Johnson, Diane

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Dutton Adult, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Light shelf wear hardly worth mentioning. Inside is clean and excellent. Stated First Printing with string of 1-10. From Publishers Weekly: Even more knowing and perceptive than Le Divorce, Johnson's second novel about American expatriates in France is another wickedly clever comedy of manners. Her amused irony infuses this story of two romantic relationships. Good-natured Tim Nolinger, an easygoing journalist of mixed American and Belgian ancestry, is engaged to adorable Anne-Sophie d'Arget, who runs a boutique selling equestrian memorabilia in the Paris flea market. When Tim pursues a story about a stolen medieval manuscript called the Driad Apocalypse, their lives intersect with those of a former American film star, Clara Holly, and her husband, famous and reclusive director Serge Cray, who live in a ch?teau in the suburbs of Paris. Peripheral characters include Anne-Sophie's mother, a cynical Parisienne novelist whose romance novels contain platitudinous advice about love that her daughter takes seriously; various members of the American community in Paris; the villagers of Etang-la-reine, who resent the rich property owners from the States and whose anger about the loss of their hunting rights triggers a plot against the Crays; two visitors from Clara's hometown in Oregon, and the members of a millennium cult there, who are pivotal in the drama of the purloined papers. What will be even more satisfying to Johnson's fans is Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.

Book summary

New York journalist Tim Nollinger and his fiancée, a Frenchwoman named Anne-Sophie d"Argel, are trying to recover a stolen illuminated manuscript that may have been acquired by Serge Cray, a film-maker in Paris, and his American wife Clara Holly. In this comedy of errors combined with French farce, Diane Johnson writes not exactly a sequel to her award-winning LE DIVORCE, but another comic novel about the same traditionally rich subject: hapless Americans in France. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.