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L'Affaire (Original 2003; 2004. Auflage)

von Diane Johnson (Autor)

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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 Eurotrash 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.… (mehr)

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Titel:	L'Affaire
Autoren:	Diane Johnson (Autor)
Info:	Plume (2004), Edition: Reprint, 352 pages
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Calif. $ goes to ski resort — she tries to do good — things get mixed up — good

Amy Hawkins, a smart, pretty Palo Alto girl who made herself a dot-com fortune, goes to France to get a sheen of sophistication and, perhaps, to have an affair that will ruffle her all-too-steady heart. Amy starts her quest in the French Alps in the town of Valméri, amid an assortment of aristocrats and ski enthusiasts.When two of the hotel’s guests, esteemed English publisher Adrian Venn and his much younger American wife, Kerry, are swept away by an avalanche, Adrian’s children—young, old, legitimate, illegitimate—assemble in Valméri to protect their interests.

christinejoseph | Sep 16, 2016 |

Amy finds herself wealthy after her dotcom company sells, and she sets off for France for a course of self-improvement. While at a ski resort in the Alps, an avalanche puts two fellow guests in the hospital. Adrian, who is married to Kerry, is not expected to survive his injuries. Amy befriends Kerry's 14-year-old brother Kip as he shoulders responsibility for his infant half-brother Harry. Soon other of Adrian's offspring appear: Rupert, who is content to ski; Posy, who falls into bed Emile, husband of Victoire, a sister she didn't know she had. Insipid and superficial, I rate this New York Times Notable Book of 2003 at 3 out of 10 stars. (

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jeanned | Jun 29, 2011 |

This is the story of a young, independently wealthy, American woman, who seeks a master class on sophistication in France. With the help of a female French mentor (who caters to American women) and an international group of people she meets at a ski resort, she finds more questions than answers. Overall the story seemed to lack an ending; character stories wrapped up abruptly. I enjoyed the travel aspect of this book most of all - transporting me to France, both a small skiing village and Paris, for a little while every evening. (

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melissavenable | Jan 29, 2011 |

More Americans in France.

mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |

It was OK. It started better than it went on. It is written in a precise style and each character is drawn so you see their faults & virtues...except maybe the lawyers. It was odd that the women had no problem sleeping with another woman's husband, esp. since he was the father of her children. Oh yes, there was also a problem with time, she didn't seem clear how old the father was and how he got so old; the children were too young for how old I think he was supposed to be...but maybe not, is the point that he wasn't so old, just the kid thought he was?

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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 Eurotrash 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.

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