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Diane Johnson was born in Illinois and educated at the universities of Utah and California. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Le Marriage, Persian Nights and The Shadow Knows, two collections of essays, and biographies of Mary Ellen Peacock and Dashiell Hammett. She has also written screenplays and collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining. She lives in Paris and San Francisco with her husband.
Paris - and the French - through the eyes of a young Californian. Isabel's sister Roxy has married a Frenchman. Pregnant with her second child she has been deserted. Isabel, ignorant of the language and customs but caught up in the acrimony of a foreign divorce, and her own liaison with an elderly Frenchman, begins to be, bemusedly, in love with 'Frenchness', until money (a great deal) and a shocking death, stretch the membrane of tolerance holding Europe and America together to near-disintegration. Shrewd, sophisticated, perspicacious - and strongly recommended. (Kirkus UK)
