by Diane Johnson (Author)
Clara Holly is a former actress, beautiful, rich, and 'well married, far from her Oregon beginnings' to the renowned but reclusive film director Serge Clay. Anne-Sophie is a proper young Frenchwoman with a smart little antique stall in the Paris flea market and a wedding to plan. As the plot thickens they are all drawn into a cross between a modern Feydeau farce and a Kafkaesque nightmare, as their paths and those of a host of other characters intersect at the Cray's chateau. Despite murder, misunderstanding, hostage-taking and erotic encounters, however, le marriage must go ahead in the grand French style.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0099421852
ISBN 13: 9780099421856
Book Overview: Diane Johnson trains her sharp eye on marriage a la mode in another funny, frothy novel about Parisians at home and Americans abroad - with a dark undertow of murder, forgery and marital disillusion