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home & past selections

Other Books by Diane Johnson

Persian Nights

Le Mariage

Burning

Lying Low

Health and Happiness

The Shadow of Knows

Discussion Question

* Roxy and Isabel are not real sisters - they are stepsisters. In fact, their parents marriage is how they have come together as a family. Describe the relationships between the family members: mom, dad, sisters and their brother.

 

* What is the difference between the Isabel that was newly-arrived to Paris and the Isabel that greeted her family? How have Paris and the French changed her? For the better or worse?

 

Current Selection - November 2001

 

Le Divorce

By Diane Johnson

$12.95 paperback

309 pages

Le Divorce was a National Book Award finalist

From the back of the cover…

“Le Divorce follows this smart, sexy American abroad as she arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage into an aristocratic French family has assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But all is not as it should be in the Persand household: Roxy’s husband has just left her for the Czechoslovakian wife of an American lawyer. Could “le divorce” be far behind?”