Isabel Walker, a Berkeley film-school dropout, travels to Paris to assist her pregnant stepsister, Roxy, whose husband has left her. In her tight circle of expatriates, Isabel learns--not always painlessly--about the relations between...

First came LE ORCE, then LE MARIAGE, and now L'AFFAIRE. Diane Johnson places a group of wealthy skiers in a resort in the French Alps, where an avalanche buries a married couple, both of whom are in a coma. As relatives and friends ga...