Paris - and the French - through the eyes of a young Californian.
Isabel's sister Roxy has married a Frenchman. Pregnant with her
second child she has been deserted. Isabel, ignorant of the
language and customs but caught up in the acrimony of a foreign
divorce, and her own liaison with an elderly Frenchman, begins to
be, bemusedly, in love with 'Frenchness', until money (a great
deal) and a shocking death, stretch the membrane of tolerance
holding Europe and America together to near-disintegration. Shrewd,
sophisticated, perspicacious - and strongly recommended. (Kirkus
UK)
Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her own sentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialism and an older man - her sister's marriage disintergrates into bitter Franco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting. With a sharp tongue and an ironic eye for the foibles of the Parisian bourgeoisie, the French art world and American ex-patriots, Isabel is a collector of experience, even those she can't control. Comedy veers suddenly close to tragedy as passionate jealousy, self-interest and artistic intrigue interweave.
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