Le Divorce

Imagine the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady sporting a stylish haircut, miniskirt, and sunglasses, and you have Isabel Walker, the heroine of this incandescent novel.Le Divorce follows this smart, sexy American abroad as she arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, whose marriage into an aristocratic French family has assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But Roxy's husband has just left her for the Czechoslovakian wife of an American lawyer. Could 'le divorce' be far behind?This bestselling novel -- a delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder -- is as wickedly funny as it is deeply insightful. At the center of it all is the irrepressible Isabel -- captivated by Paris and a handsome, worldly French diplomat -- and trying to keep her perspective as cultures and human passions collide.

Literature & Fiction

JOHNSON, Diane

Neuwirth, Bebe.

Genre Fiction

HarperAudio

Le Mariage

Vintage

L'Affaire

Humor & Satire

Penguin

“[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.” —The New York Times Book Review Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans’ indifference to history. Could it be true? The j’accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family’s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestors—beginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711. As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the “wispy but material” family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.

Flyover Lives: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Plume

Bel Air is a wealthy community nestled in the hills outside of Los Angeles. It is here, among the pastel stucco houses and palm trees, that Bingo Edwards, the New Age wife of an orthopedic surgeon, lives a sheltered and eccentric life raising chickens and box turtles. Her harmonious existence is disrupted when the local fire department arrives to remove the hazardous backyard privacy hedges which have protected her from the outside world. Uprooting the hedges exposes Bingo all too well to her neighbors, an unconventional Beverly Hills psychiatrist and his eccentric patients. She also finds herself in the company of strangers, particularly a magnificently handsome fireman who has made it his personal crusade to "service" many of the housewives on Bellagio Road. As the situation heats up for everyone, an enormous fire threatens to consume Bel Air and in the process, destroy Bingo

Burning

Romance

Contemporary

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Edwin Brown Fred: Scientist, Administrator, Gentleman

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

1st edition 1st printing trade paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The life of Dashiel Hammett

Macmillan

Lying Low

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

Dust jacket design by Robert Aulicino. With Bibliography and many black & white photographs.

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

Alfred.A. Knopf

The Shadow Knows

The anonymous heroine, N, is a young woman who has broken free of a constricting marriage and is struggling to raise four children alone in a housing project. Coming home one day N finds her door hacked with an ax and smeared with what appears to be a mixture of blood and crankcase oil. A few days later a strangled cat is left outside her apartment door. Everyday, she is plagued by mysterious, disturbing phone calls. Playing detective and attempting to figure out who her enemy may be, N's real fears merge with paranoid fantasy in this fascinating story which rivals the best of Henry James's dark, psychological gothic tales. • Johnson's most recent novel, Le Divorce, was a phenomenal success. • Long out-of-print, this classic Diane Johnson novel is now available for all the readers of Le Divorce left hungry for more. • The Shadow Knows received outstanding reviews.

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