International Fiction Review, January 1st, 2005
Diane Johnson L'Affaire New York: Dutton, 2003. Pp. 340. CAN $37.50
If you have not yet read the first two novels in Diane Johnson's AngloFrench trilogy, Le Divorce (1997) and Le Mariage (2000), do so at your earliest opportunity. But you need not read them before you read her latest offering, L'Affaire. These three novels suggest a Henry James tale penned by a contemporary American Jane Austen. Diane Johnson is well placed to write novels about American women infiltrating society in France, for she divides her time between San Francisco and Paris. Quel dommage! The two epigrams of the nove...
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