Diane Johnson An American-born novelist, essayist, and screenwriter

The Customs of the Country

Date of Review: 
02/02/1997
Reviewer: 
Malcolm Bradbury
Source: 
The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

Le Divorce … reminds us that even in our own day it remains, as Henry James said, a complex fate to be an American; that one of the difficulties Americanism still entails is taking up a superstitious valuation of Europe; and that it’s just as hard as ever to be truly cosmopolitan.