{"product_id":"le-mariage-9780452282261","title":"Le Mariage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage... she is a philosopher as much as a novelist.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eLe Divorce, \u003c\/i\u003ea sparkling comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris\u003cp\u003eAnne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the possession of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. As Tim, Anne-Sophie, a pair of American antique dealers, and one amorous member of the local gentry converge on the director's chateau, the director's wife—a former actress—is accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; and murder, and you have this sexy, stylish, delight of a novel that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage and morality as they are perceived on both sides of the Atlantic. Filled with the author's pithy insights and hilarious asides, \u003ci\u003eLe Mariage\u003c\/i\u003e is Diane Johnson at her very best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62236386230659,"sku":"9780452282261","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780452282261.jpg?v=1785359751","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/le-mariage-9780452282261","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}