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  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446448885
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Le Mariage





Diane Johnson trains her sharp eye on marriage a la mode in another funny, frothy novel about Parisians at home and Americans abroad - with a dark undertow of murder, forgery and marital disillusion

Clara Holly is a former actress, beautiful, rich, and 'well married, far from her Oregon beginnings' to the renowned but reclusive film director Serge Clay. Anne-Sophie is a proper young Frenchwoman with a smart little antique stall in the Paris flea market and a wedding to plan. As the plot thickens they are all drawn into a cross between a modern Feydeau farce and a Kafkaesque nightmare, as their paths and those of a host of other characters intersect at the Cray's château. Despite murder, misunderstanding, hostage-taking and erotic encounters, however, le marriage must go ahead in the grand French style.

  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446448885
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

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Praise for Le Mariage

In the end, it's Johnson's insights that account for the charm of these books

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