Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie

Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie

Alan Mackenzie's bad back is ruining both his and his wife Jane's lives. After years of happy marriage, these two attractive and intelligent people have stopped making love and are starting to resent each other.

Mordant and entertaining, and wonderfully expansive about a time, a place, and the corrosive effect of selfishness -- Penelope Lively * Spectator *
Hours of bitter-sweet, highly intelligent fun * Scotsman *
An enjoyably spiky minuet of human selfishness * The Times *
Sly and funnyA deeply pleasurable page-turner * Observer *
It is Lurie, not Updike whom people will one day read to discover what our life and times were really like. Dazzling intelligent, witty, perceptive and engaging, she is not to be missed * New Statesman *

Alison Lurie is the author of ten novels, including Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize, 1985), The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger, 1989), and The Last Resort. Ms Lurie has also published Women and Ghosts, a collection of supernatural stories; Familiar Spirits, a memoir of the poet James Merrill; and The Language of Clothes, a study of the psychology of fashion. She has written two collections of essays on children's literature, Tell the Grown-ups and Boys and Girls Forever, and three books of traditional folktales for children.

Three of Alison Lurie's novels - Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates and Imaginary Friends - have been adapted for television. She has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation grants, and the Amercian Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction.

Alison Lurie was until recently the Frederic J. Whiton Porfessor of American Literature at Cornell University. She is now retired and she spends part of the summer in London and most of the winter in Key West, Florida.

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ISBN 13	9780099485063
ISBN 10	0099485060
Title	Truth and Consequences
Author	Alison Lurie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2006-06-01
Number of pages	240
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