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.

Le Mariage

Literature & Fiction

Diane Johnson

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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 disintegrates 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. In this work, comedy veers suddenly close to tragedy as passionate jealousy, self-interest and artistic intrigue interweave.

Divorce, Le

Literary

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Lulu in Marrakech

Penguin??Books

The anonymous heroine, N, is a young woman who has broken free of a constricting marriage and is struggling to raise four children alone in a housing project. Coming home one day N finds her door hacked with an ax and smeared with what appears to be a mixture of blood and crankcase oil. A few days later a strangled cat is left outside her apartment door. Everyday, she is plagued by mysterious, disturbing phone calls. Playing detective and attempting to figure out who her enemy may be, N's real fears merge with paranoid fantasy in this fascinating story which rivals the best of Henry James's dark, psychological gothic tales.  • Johnson's most recent novel, Le Divorce, was a  phenomenal success. • Long out-of-print, this classic Diane Johnson novel is now available for all the readers of Le Divorce left hungry for more. • The Shadow Knows received outstanding reviews.

The shadow knows

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

The Shadow Knows

The anonymous heroine, N, is a young woman who has broken free of a constricting marriage and is struggling to raise four children alone in a housing project. Coming home one day N finds her door hacked with an ax and smeared with what appears to be a mixture of blood and crankcase oil. A few days later a strangled cat is left outside her apartment door. Everyday, she is plagued by mysterious, disturbing phone calls. Playing detective and attempting to figure out who her enemy may be, N's real fears merge with paranoid fantasy in this fascinating story which rivals the best of Henry James's dark, psychological gothic tales. • Johnson's most recent novel, Le Divorce, was a phenomenal success. • Long out-of-print, this classic Diane Johnson novel is now available for all the readers of Le Divorce left hungry for more. • The Shadow Knows received outstanding reviews.

Genre Fiction

Fawcett

Lying Low

Triad/Granada

Bel Air is a wealthy community nestled in the hills outside of Los Angeles. It is here, among the pastel stucco houses and palm trees, that Bingo Edwards, the New Age wife of an orthopedic surgeon, lives a sheltered and eccentric life raising chickens and box turtles. Her harmonious existence is disrupted when the local fire department arrives to remove the hazardous backyard privacy hedges which have protected her from the outside world. Uprooting the hedges exposes Bingo all too well to her neighbors, an unconventional Beverly Hills psychiatrist and his eccentric patients. She also finds herself in the company of strangers, particularly a magnificently handsome fireman who has made it his personal crusade to "service" many of the housewives on Bellagio Road. As the situation heats up for everyone, an enormous fire threatens to consume Bel Air and in the process, destroy Bingo

Burning

Classics

HarperCollins Distribution Services

L'Affaire

Romance

The Penguin Group, Inc.

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A New York Times Bestseller When Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of the NASDAQ, overhears a pair of elderly -- and thus much wiser -- socialites decry the new generation for their incompetence in all things worldly, she sets off to Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. A few days into her trip, Amy is nearly swept away by an avalanche. Two of the hotel guests were not so fortunate. Amy, already suspect as an American, finds that her nationality freezes the social climate as she steps in to assist the family.

L'affaire

United States

Wheeler Publishing

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