by Diane Johnson · E P Dutton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780525947400
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«L'Affaire» is the novel by Diane Johnson, published by E P Dutton in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
American executive Amy Hawkins travels to the French Alps in search of culture and purpose. After an avalanche leaves editor Adrian Venn and his wife in a coma, Amy becomes embroiled in the dispute among his children, legitimate and illegitimate, over the inheritance. The novel portrays with irony the cultural clashes between Americans and Europeans.
First English edition published in 2003. Diane Johnson is also the author of «Le Divorce», and both novels share a Franco-American setting.
For readers of contemporary fiction about cultural encounters and misunderstandings between the United States and Europe, with a brisk and ironic tone.
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living in contemporary France. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Persian Nights in 1988.
