Foreign Affairs-Op/20

Foreign Affairs-Op/20 by Alison Lurie

WINER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel.

Also in London is Vinnie's colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead, he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to.

Both American, both abroad, and both achingly lonely, Vinnie and Fred play out their confused alienation and dizzying romantic liaisons in Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, Foreign Affairs remains an enduring comic masterpiece.

A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.
-Elizabeth Hardwick

There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.
-John Fowles

If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.
-USA Today

An ingenious, touching book.
-Newsweek

A flawless jewel.
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Alison Lurie's novels include The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Estranger, 1989), and Foreign Affairs (1985 Pulitzer Prize for fiction). She splits her time between Ithaca, Key West, and London at the moment.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780380898879
ISBN 10	038089887X
Titel	Foreign Affairs-Op/20
Autor	Alison Lurie
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Avon Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1985-11-01
Seitenanzahl	0
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.