Diane Johnson
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life.
“Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the...
“Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the...
3) Le mariage
Author
Language
English
Description
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, an easygoing journalist of mixed American and Belgian ancestry, is engaged to adorable Anne-Sophie d'Arget, who runs a boutique selling equestrian memorabilia in the Paris flea market. When Tim pursues...
5) Le divorce
Author
Language
English
Description
A witty look at French and American cultures. It begins when an American woman arrives in Paris to help her sister divorce an aristocratic husband who has taken off with another woman. The couple have a child and the two families, French and American, clash over its future. By the author of Persian Nights.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her: 'Indifference to history--that's why you Americans seem so naive and don't really know where...
11) Lying low
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
An elderly sister and brother and their two boarders experience a few unusual days that prove crucial in their lives.
15) The shadow knows
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Language
English
Description
Gripping suspense and penetrating insight combine in this best selling novel about a woman determined to survive in the shadow of disappointment, change, and the growing certainty that someone is out to get her.
17) Persian nights
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
"Chloe, a contented and unliberated wife and mother, follows her physician husband on a visit to Iran. When he is summoned home, she has no choice but to continue on alone."--
18) The shining
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
19) Selected tales
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience. But his enormous popularity and his continuing influence on literature depend less on legend or vision than on his stylistic accomplishments...
20) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.