Diane Johnson
1) Le mariage
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Critics hail Diane Johnson as a cross between Jane Austen and Henry James. In this best-selling comedy of Americans abroad and Parisians at home, she celebrates the mores and manners of contemporary marriage. Struggling American writer Tim Nolinger pursues his journalism career in Paris while proper Frenchwoman Anne Sophie plans their wedding. When Tim covers the theft of a valuable manuscript, the story leads the couple to the local home of a reclusive...
2) Le divorce
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
This delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian society...until her husband leaves her for the wife of an American lawyer. Could "le divorce" be far behind? Can irrepressible Isabel keep her perspective (and...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Lulu arrives in Marrakech, hoping to rekindle her romance with Ian. It's the perfect cover for her assignment with the CIA. But beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced with double standards and double agents.
5) The shining
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.