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 ...
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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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I never quite clicked with this book. The author fails to establish a consistent tone-- it starts off as an apparent comedy of manners (great culture clash premise: Isabel Walker, young California film-school drop-out heads to Paris to help pregnant sister who's French husband has just ditched her), but then nothing comedic happens. On the contrary, as the book progresses, with various sub-plots woven through (including Isabel's truly repellent affair with an elderly uncle of her brother-in-law), Ms. Johnson comes up with ever more preposterous (and unpleasant) scenarios until the book ends with Isabel supposedly gaining a modicum of maturity (although all the characters seem so entitled and self-absorbed, who really cares?) What kept me reading were the delicious nuggets of French culture and language throughout the book. It may be worth it if you're a real Francophile.
