Diane Johnson, Author . Dutton $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-94740-0
In Le Divorce
and Le Mariage, Johnson polished her skill for sophisticated social comedy involving the cultural disconnections of Americans in France. Here, she perfects it in a deliciously entertaining story of a group of people drawn together̵
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Diane Johnson, Author . National Geographic Directions $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7922-7266-3
The Paris Left Bank neighborhood of St.-Germain is most often connected to the era from the 1940s through the '60s, when Sartre, de Beauvoir and others gathered in its cafes to discuss existentialism and listen to jazz; and the district has also
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Diane Johnson, Author Dutton/Signet $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-94238-2
It's no accident that the epigraph for this delightfully urbane social tragicomedy is taken from Henry James. Narrator Isabel Walker is a latter-day Isabel Archer, a charming, intelligent but naive American in Paris, who thinks herself sophisticated
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Diane Johnson, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-21841-9
The hospital milieu is accurately rendered but the characterization unsatisfying in this novel about a single mother who hovers near death after being treated incorrectly for a minor problem. ``The timeliness of her theme and her adroit plotting...
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Diane Johnson, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-525-94518-5
Even more knowing and perceptive than Le Divorce, Johnson's second novel about American expatriates in France is another wickedly clever comedy of manners. Her amused irony infuses this story of two romantic relationships. Good-natured Tim Nolinger,
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Diane Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-394-58717-2
Having chosen to set her latest novel (after Persian Nights ) in a hospital milieu (within the San Francisco Bay Area), Johnson succeeds remarkably well in replicating that world, but not so well in the delineation of character, a talent her...
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Diane Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $21 (234p) ISBN 978-0-679-41346-2
In this singular collection of 10 travel pieces, Johnson ( Health and Happiness ) claims she ``almost always travels reluctantly''; she also admits to disliking air travel, which imposes on her the ``feeling of being in mortal peril, suspended...
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Diane Johnson, Author, Bebe Neuwirth, Read by , read by Bebe Neuwirth. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-052346-6
The voice of Tony Award–winning stage and film actress Neuwirth, who is well known for her Emmy-winning role as Dr. Lilith Crane on the television sitcom Cheers, embodies the wry humor and sarcastic wit of Johnson's accomplished coming-of-a
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Diane Johnson, Author . Dutton $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-95037-0
Fans of Johnson's NBA finalist Le Divorce
will know what to expect: a fish-out-of-water story about a clash of cultures. Still, the tone and scope of this agreeable if quiet story owes more to the author's early work—Persian Nights
,
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Diane Johnson. Knopf, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-52108-2
Johnson (Flyover Lives: A Memoir) makes a welcome return to her wheelhouse in this propulsive domestic dramedy of manners. Having lived for more that 20 years in a village with the “exigent rectitude of formal, starchy France,” Lorna Mott Dumas...
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Diane Johnson. Viking, $26.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-670-01640-2
Award-winning novelist and essayist (L’Affair) Johnson explores her Midwestern roots and family history in this charming and candid memoir. Using letters written by her pioneer ancestors, the author delves into family stories while examining the...
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