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Johnson, Diane. L'Affaire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003. 336p. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94740-X).
Like the wildly successful Le Divorce (1997) and Le Mariage (2000), Johnson's latest novel explores the strange alchemy that occurs when American and European social mores collide. On the cusp of her thirtieth birthday, Californian Amy Hawkins arrives at a posh ski resort in the French Alps just as a freak series of avalanches lands two of her fellow vacationers in the hospital. The victims are a wealthy British publisher and his latest wife, and before long the children of his previous marriages arrive to sort out his affairs. Amy, who had hoped ...
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