Le Divorce

Name: Le Divorce
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Diane Johnson
ISBN: 9781440797057

Author: Diane Johnson

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/06/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Diane Johnson, critically acclaimed author of Le Mariage, has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize during her distinguished career. The best-selling Le Divorce, a witty and insightful look at clashing cultures, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Isabel Walker has flown to Paris to offer moral support for Roxy, her pregnant stepsister. Roxy's husband Charles-Henri, favorite son of a powerful French family, is having a love affair. Divorce seems imminent. When her entire family arrives to help with legal issues, Isabel feels intense pressure to keep everything from falling apart. And in the background, the unstable husband of Charles-Henri's lover lurks menacingly. A resident of both America and France, Diane Johnson infuses this shrewd comedy of manners with keen observations about cultural differences. Narrator Suzanne Toren creates a stylish, smart, and sexy Isabel who strives to stay grounded amidst everything Paris has to offer.

About Diane Johnson

Diane Johnson is an American-born novelist and essayist. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and nominated three times for the National Book Award in three different genres — essay, biography, and fiction — she is the author of a dozen novels, including Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L’Affaire. Here she returns to the mode of her classic biography, Lesser Lives. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she splits her time between San Francisco and Paris.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian

Oo la-la. Silly Americans in an even sillier Old World. France is still the place where you can pretend that you are better than everyone else on the planet! And here I thought Argentinians on vacay where a pain in the ass. Manners & style are evidently as relevant today as ever.......more

Goodreads review by Caroline

The amount of negative reviews for this book, which is perfect, has both enraged me and confirmed my suspicion that Goodreads Don't Know Shit.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

One thing Le Divorce is definitely not: chick lit. There are abundant moments of spot-on satire and genuine poignance in this novel about American step-sisters Roxeanne and Isabel Walker adrift in Paris during the divorce of the former from her estranged French husband, Charles-Henri, who has himsel......more

Goodreads review by Ian

Qualifications I haven't seen the film of this book, and now I don't know whether I want to. It depends on what aspect of the novel it relates to best. Diane Johnson is actually a serious writer, rather than a popular fiction or chick-lit author (as Stephanie points out in her review). Off to a Good St......more