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Lorna Mott Comes Home : A Novel by Diane Johnson (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525521089
ISBN-139780525521082
eBay Product ID (ePID)6050078717
Product Key Features
Book TitleLorna Mott Comes Home : a Novel
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Satire, Literary
Publication Year2021
GenreFiction
AuthorDiane Johnson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-013976
Reviews"Briskly witty . . . delightful . . . an engaging confection . . . clever, dry, and often highly amusing."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine "Johnson returns with undimmed joie de vivre to the delicious Francophile vein she mined so successfully in her National Book Award finalist Le Divorce . . . Everything one looks forward to in Johnson's books is delivered in abundance here: nimble plotting, witty narration, edifying juxtaposition of French and American cultures . . . Johnson's social and moral insight are condensed into pithy one-liners that begin each chapter . . . She also excels at evoking people's misconstruals of others' behavior and various delicate inner states . . . Doing what she does best, Johnson shows us why she's been compared to writers like Henry James, Jane Austen, and Voltaire."-- Kirkus (starred review) "Delightfully absurd . . . incisive . . . Johnson gently but deftly skewers everyone as they scheme for financial gain and languorously search for meaning and happiness."-- Booklist "Johnson makes a welcome return to her wheelhouse in this propulsive domestic dramedy of manners . . . [Her] usual razor-sharp prose and astute observations are on full display . . . provocative . . . poignant . . . a treat."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
SynopsisFrom the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage , a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco and to the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren. "Delightful"--Claire Messud ( Harper's Magazine ); "Razor-sharp prose and astute observations ... a treat"-- Publishers Weekly (starred review). Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman--lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a delightful house and an independent career as an admired art lecturer involving travel and public appearances, expensive clothes. She's a woman with an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life. But in an impulsive and planned decision, Lorna has decided to leave her husband, a notorious tombeur (seducer), and his small ancestral village in France, and return to America, much more suited to her temperament than the rectitude of formal starchy France. For Lorna, a beautiful idyll is over, finished, done . . . In Lorna Mott Comes Home, Diane Johnson brings us into the dreamy, anxiety-filled American world of Lorna Mott Dumas, where much has changed and where she struggles to create a new life to support herself. Into the mix--her ex-husband, and the father of her three grown children (all supportive), and grandchildren with their own troubles (money, divorce, real estate, living on the fringe; a thriving software enterprise; a missing child in the far east; grandchildren--new hostages to fortune; and, one, 15 years old, a golden girl yet always different, diagnosed at a young age with diabetes, and now pregnant and determined to have the child) . . . In the midst of a large cast, the precarious balance of comedy and tragedy, happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, generosity and greed, love and sex, Diane Johnson, our Edith Wharton of expat life, comes home to America to deftly, irresistibly portray, with the lightest of touch, the way we live now.
LC Classification NumberPS3560.O3746L67 2021
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