Divorce, Le
 

Divorce, Le

by Diane Johnson

Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel... (read more)

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The story is great fun and so is the movie.

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Theophania
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The back cover promised a "delightfully urbane social tragicomedy." What I got was one of the most annoying books I have ever read. Not a sympathetic character in sight--not the self-indulgent narrator and certainly not her simpering sister. Yet they weren't even unsympathetic in an interesting way. They just continued to grate on my nerves over and over and over again. When I heard they were making a movie out of this my first thought was "why on earth?!" and my second thought was "thank...

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