L'Affaire
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L'Affaire
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Narrated by:
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Blair Brown
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Written by:
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Diane Johnson
About this listen
Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy starts her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps - a hotel noted for skiing and its famous cooking lessons - in the town of Valmeri, amid an assortment of Eurotrash aristocrats and ski enthusiasts. She has no plans to fall in love.
On the first afternoon, she is nearly swept away by an avalanche....
With a memorable cast of characters assembled on an unmistakably European stage, Diane Johnson has crafted a penetrating comedy of manners about being American in Europe - and about love.
©2003 Diane Johnson (P)2016 Random House AudioWhat the critics say
"In Le Divorce and Le Mariage, Johnson polished her skill for sophisticated social comedy involving the cultural disconnections of Americans in France. Here, she perfects it in a deliciously entertaining story of a group of people drawn together - and divided by - the sharply different laws of succession in France and Britain.... Johnson's dexterity with plot builds astounding but credible complications, and she is adept at rendering a kind of fugal counterpoint in which each character misunderstands what each of the others thinks. Because love and money are never far apart in Johnson's oeuvre, four affairs take place, with mixed results. Johnson is more droll than Henry James, to whom she's been compared, and she's as witty as a modern-day Voltaire. Vraiment, L'Affaire, c'est irresistible!" (Publishers Weekly)
"Like the wildly successful Le Divorce and Le Mariage, Johnson's latest novel explores the strange alchemy that occurs when American and European social mores collide...Johnson's novel is exactly the kind of intricate, bittersweet comedy of manners her many fans have come to expect." (Booklist)
"Immensely amusing...devilishly on target." (The New York Times Book Review)