1st Printing. Signed. 322 pages. Published in 2000. The author's ninth novel. One of Diane Johnson's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Diane Johnson's "Le Mariage". A delicious treat. The sequel-of-sorts to "Le Divorce", the bestseller that belatedly and deservedly established Diane Johnson's international reputation. Continues the author's piquant observations of domestic bliss and sorrow in a novel that is replete with interesting characters, enchanting settings, and the most intricate plot turns: Hostage taking, murder, and most rewardingly, erotic encounters of the most delicious kind. An absolute "must-have" title for Diane Johnson collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Diane Johnson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0525945180.

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Title: LE MARIAGE - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Diane Johnson - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
Publisher: New York City, NY: Dutton, 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0525945180
ISBN 13: 9780525945185
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author

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A proper Frenchwoman married to an American journalist finds herself in the midst of a scandal involving a stolen manuscript, a reclusive film director, and his actress wife. By the author of Le Divorce.

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"Splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics." --The New York Times Book Review

"A comic novel in the classic manner, with smart style, piquant suspense, and dog-earingly epigrammatic prose." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A witty romp." --Elle

"Johnson whips love and marriage into a frothy souffle...delicious." --Entertainment Weekly

"Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage...she is a philosopher as much as a novelist."--The New Yorker

"Rich, nuanced, and highly satisfying." --Glamour

"Another wickedly clever comedy of manners... In six degrees of separation, everybody is connected, yet the coincidences are artfully managed. Johnson's crisp manipulation of the engagingly convoluted plot is rooted in her central theme of French misconceptions about Americans, and vice versa. As exemplified by Holly and Cray, even those who share the same culture habitually fail to estimate the other accurately. Johnson's barbs are sophisticated and sharp, her amused irony is easily maintained, and her finesse at narrative is as fine tuned as her cultural sensitivity and her instincts about human behavior."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics."--The New York Times Book Review

"A comic novel in the classic manner, with smart style, piquant suspense, and dog-earingly epigrammatic prose."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A witty romp."--Elle

"Johnson whips love and marriage into a frothy souffle...delicious."--Entertainment Weekly

"Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage...she is a philosopher as much as a novelist."--The New Yorker

"Rich, nuanced, and highly satisfying."--Glamour

"Johnson is a beguiling writer, serving up catty observations with loopy good humor... near-perfect... a masterly storyteller who can pull off a storybook ending--love, joy, a trip down the aisle--without making us gag."--Salon

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