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Flyover lives : a memoir
\"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 you're from.' The j'accuse stayed with Johnson. Were Americans indifferent to history? Her own family seemed always to have been in the Midwest. Surely they had got there from somewhere? In digging around, she discovers letters and memoirs written by generations of stalwart pioneer ancestors that testify to more complex times than the derisive nickname 'The Flyover' gives the region credit for. With the acuity and sympathy that her novels are known for, she captures the magnetic pull of home against our lust for escape and self-invention. This spellbinding memoir will appeal to fans of Bill Bryson, Patricia Hampl, and Annie Dillard\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Understanding Diane Johnson
Understanding Diane Johnson is a biographical and critical study of a quintessential American novelist who has devoted forty-five years to writing about French and American culture. Johnson, who was nominated for the National Book Award three times and the Pulitzer Prize twice, has been a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books since the 1970s and is the author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction volumes. Carolyn A. Durham explores Johnson's fiction and nonfiction works, emphasizing that setting is key to the construction of Johnson's literary world, a theme displayed throughout her eleven novels. Johnson is well known as a comic novelist who addresses serious social problems. Durham outlines Johnson's continued exploration of women's lives and her experimentation with varied forms of narrative technique and genre parody in the detective novels The Shadow Knows and Lying Low, both award-winning novels. Durham examines Johnson's reinvention of the international novel of manners—inherited from Henry James and Edith Wharton—in her best-selling Franco-American trilogy: Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L'Affaire. As the first book-length study of this distinguished American writer, Understanding Diane Johnson surveys an extensive body of work and draws critical attention to a well-published, widely read author who was the winner of the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Fiction in 1997.
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Johnson, Diane (1934– )
(1934– ),
American novelist and biographer, born in Illinois and educated at the universities of Utah and California.
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Increase in lead testing in Broken Hill; There's been an increase in the number of parents getting their children tested for lead poisoning in Broken Hill
Ms [Diane Johnson] says many parents think they don't need to get their children's blood lead levels tested, but they do. \"A lot of people just don't see lead as an issue anymore,\" she said. \"Don't become complacent,\" she said.
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Sullivan and Johnson form institute for healing in society and medicine
Martin J. Sullivan, MD, and Diane Johnson, PhD, have formed the new nonprofit Institute for Healing in Society and Medicine (IHSM) in Chapel Hill NC. The IHSM opened in Jul 2002 to help physicians reconnect their inner lives with their professional mission and the sacred roots of medicine.
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Two Novels, One Plot
Literary coincidence can be a peculiar thing. Two writers working many miles apart, one English and one American, have entirely independently of each other somehow managed to write what at moments seems exactly the same book. This is not for a moment to suggest that Diane Johnson was looking over Joanna Trollope's shoulder, or vice versa, but still the similarities between the latter's \"A Spanish Lover\" and the former's \"Le Divorce\" are nothing if not spooky. Each novel is about two sisters; Trollope's are twins, Johnson's are stepsisters. In each novel one sister is married while the other is at loose ends; the first is regarded in each family as stable, the second as unpredictable. Each of the unattached sisters plunges into an intense relationship with a man who is (a) substantially older and (b) a foreigner. Thus each novel has as a central theme the clash within families between different people with different expectations and the parallel clash between lovers of different cultures and backgrounds. Each novel ends, finally, with the birth of a baby and the prospect of renewal. The central character of \"Le Divorce\" is Isabel Walker, a young Californian who comes to Paris \"to spend some months babysitting my pregnant sister Roxeanne's three-year-old, Genevieve (Gennie), reading books in French that I didn't expect to like much . . ., and under the cover of being a help to Roxy, hoping to get some of my rough California edges buffed off that the University of Southern California had failed to efface.\" Instead, needless to say, she finds herself in all manner of trouble, little of it of her own making but much of it painful.
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