Publishers Weekly, August 18th, 2003
PW: L'Affaire [reviewed on p. 57] is a natural successor to Le Divorce and Le Mariage. How did you come to write them?
Diane Johnson: I went to Paris in 1995 with my husband, [a research physician] who was taking up work with an international nonprofit health organization headquartered in Paris. I've always been interested in comedies of manners, and it took a different society to illumine our own manners as well as those of the French. My focus is on Americans in Paris against the background of a very different culture, one that's rigid and codified. Our own culture seems very fluid next t...
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