L'affaire - Hardcover

Diane Johnson

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ISBN 10: 1587245868 ISBN 13: 9781587245862

Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, 2004

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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.

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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.

About the Author:

Diane Johnson is the author of the bestselling novel Le Divorce, a National Book Award finalist, as well as many other novels, including Persian Nights, Health and Happiness, Lying Low, The Shadow Knows, and Burning. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Persian Nights, and she co-authored the screenplay to The Shining with Stanley Kubrick. She divides her time between San Francisco and Paris.

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