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...

Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the pos...

A National Book Award finalist, this novel relates the events of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, 'lying low' and harboring secrets not meant to be shared. Theo Wait, a middle-aged for...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a \"lesser\" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of V...