Author

Publication

2000 - Dutton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

80,500 words, Guess

Page Count

322 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing162051
  • Goodreads1607778

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3560.O3746 M37 2000

Description

"In Le Mariage, Diane Johnson gives us a comedy of contemporary mores and manners that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage...as it is perceived on both sides of the Atlantic. Anne-Sophie is a proper young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, a struggling American journalist who is hot on the trail of a breaking story: the theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York. Rumor has it that the manuscript may be in the hands of Serge Cray, 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 Cray home - a chateau rumored to have once belonged to Madame du Barry - Clara Holly, Cray's Oregon-born wife and a former actress, is propelled into a Kafkaesque nightmare: She stands accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; murder; and various suspicions, seductions, domestic crises, and declarations of love that send both hosts and houseguests into erotic tailspins."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Le mariageDutton2000-01-01

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