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Pregnant and recently abandoned by her husband, Roxeanne Walker de Persand has her sister, Isabel, come to Paris to help her through this period as the powerful Persand family pushes for a divorce and control of a valuable Walker family heirloom.
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"Stylish... refreshing... a genuinely wise and humane novel."--The New York Times Book Review "A modern collision of French and American mores begins in near farce but ends in tragedy in Johnson's bright, unsparing novel... Johnson is especially good at catching the class-bound, cool, utter self- assurance of the French upper classes, and the determinedly frank, aggressive innocence of their American counterparts... A shrewd, carefully detailed portrait of the ways in which Americans and the French continue to romanticize, denigrate, and misapprehend each other, contained in a well-paced, believably dramatic narrative."--Kirkus Reviews "Social comedy at its best."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "One savors each page... If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."--San Francisco Chronicle
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Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her own sentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialism and an older man - her sister's marriage disintegrates into bitter Franco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting. With a sharp tongue and an ironic eye for the foibles of the Parisian bourgeoisie, the French art world and American ex-patriots, Isabel is a collector of experience, even those she can't control.
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- PublisherWheeler Pub Inc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1587245914
- ISBN 13 9781587245916
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages482
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