LAffaire, Diane Johnson
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L'Affaire

Author: Diane Johnson

Narrator: Blair Brown

Abridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2003


Synopsis

Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy starts her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps--a hotel noted for skiing and its famous cooking lessons--in the town of Valmeri, amid an assortment of Euro trash aristocrats and ski enthusiasts. She has no plans to fall in love.

On the first afternoon, she is nearly swept away by an avalanche . . .

With a memorable cast of characters assembled on an unmistakably European stage, Diane Johnson has crafted a penetrating comedy of manners about being American in Europe--and about love.

Author Bio

Diane Johnson is an American-born novelist and essayist. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and nominated three times for the National Book Award in three different genres — essay, biography, and fiction — she is the author of a dozen novels, including Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L’Affaire. Here she returns to the mode of her classic biography, Lesser Lives. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she splits her time between San Francisco and Paris.

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