Title: Thoroughly enjoyable Franco-American comic novel
Review: Don't pay any attention to reviewers who nitpick about a few pronunciation gaffes in order to show off their own knowledge--Diane Johnson has lived in France, among the very people she describes in her trilogy of Franco-American novels, and she knows what she's talking about, whether she's describing the intricacies of tipping at the George V, French attachment to archaic rituals of the land like the hunt, or the joys and loneliness of expat living. If you're bored by subtle insights into French manners and mores, turned off by dead-on descriptions of how desire (Claire Holly's for the man who becomes her lover) is born and grows, or wearied by an intricate plot that builds to a satisfying climax in which a gun goes off, go read a Twilight novel. There are books that teach us about real life and books that pull the wool over our eyes--Le Mariage is the former.
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