Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
A Tale of Two Countries
By Cathleen Schine
Le Mariage
by Diane Johnson
Dutton, 322 pp., $23.95
There are many pleasures to Diane Johnson's new cultural comedy, Le Mariage. It is serious, intelligent, witty, sporting, and even touching. But perhaps the most welcome pleasure of them all is that, like some dashingly sophisticated aunt from the big city, this novel is utterly charming.
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