L’Affaire (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Diane Johnson
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: Valméri and Paris, France, and London
- Principal Characters: Amy Hawkins, Kerry Venn, Kip Canby, Pamela Venn, Rupert Venn, Posy Venn, Robin Crumley, Géraldine Chastain, Victoire Abboud, Emile Abboud, Baron Otto von Schteussel, Trevor Osworthy
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Paris, England or English people, Women, London, Business or business people, Money, Career women
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England
The final installment in Diane Johnson’s trilogy about the clash of American and French cultures, L’Affaire has as its protagonist Amy Hawkins, a wealthy young American woman who is a stranger to European culture. Like Henry James’s Daisy Miller, her personality prompts her to act precipitously, with disastrous results. Unlike Daisy Miller, she is not destroyed by her encounter but does remain clueless about the world in which she travels.
Having reaped a considerable fortune when her Internet company was bought out, she determines, with American optimism and...
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