This book only cost fifty cents. It was worth that. But I'm glad I didn't pay more.The premise, CIA agent girl in love with a rich British guy in the romantic city of Marrakech, had so much promise. At least on the dust jacket. Maybe even the first fifty pages.Then the story gets cluttered.It's o...
Johnson is best known as a cosmopolite writer “Le Divorce”, “Le Marriage” and so on—books set in Paris where she lives part-time, as well as a screenwriter and travel writer. In this memoir, she retraces her youth growing up in Moline, Illinois (flyover country) which will resonate with those of ...
Well, it's a memoir.I wrote and I wrote, and I tore up everything, and I wrote some more. After a while I didn't know why I was writing. My original desire, complicated enough, became a grueling compulsion, partly in spite of Sylvia. I was doing hard work in the cold room, much harder than necess...
From my point of view, the most valuable aspect of this novel is its honest description of the culture shock that Americans encounter when they first travel to France and the simultaneous shocks that French people have in dealing with the tourists from across the Atlantic. This is the story of ...
I found this third Diane Johnson novel about Americans in France just as worthy as Le Divorce and Le Mariage in terms of its humorous and serious look at the struggle for French and American people to comprehend and accept each others' cultural issues. Central in L'Affaire (2003) is Amy Hawkin...
On completion:Who is this book for? I mention this problem below in a partial review. Maybe you want a book offering a little bit for everyone. I prefer a book that has a central focus. A book for weekend tourists, a book for expats and that for a reader seeking information on the city’s history...