The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog. Paul explores his surroundings and discovers Ceci, a girl who could be the incarnation of the city's uninhibited ways, while Katherine meets Iz a psychiatrist who recognises her unhappiness and sets out to help her. Under the bright west coast sun, the city begins to affect the couple in separate, subtle but significant ways, shining new light on their marriage with moving, funny and unexpected consequences.
I’m mad about Lurie… I have a thing for over-educated adulterers in fiction * Guardian *
I am re-reading with enormous delight and greedIf you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational. -- Helen Simpson
Lurie shows some really fine ironic humor… An incisive and very witty novel * Kirkus Reviews *
Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not Genet
The Queen Herod of contemporary fiction
I am re-reading with enormous delight and greedIf you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational. -- Helen Simpson
Lurie shows some really fine ironic humor… An incisive and very witty novel * Kirkus Reviews *
Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not Genet
The Queen Herod of contemporary fiction
Alison Lurie published ten novels, among them Foreign Affairs (which won the Pulitzer Prize), The Truth About Lorin Jones (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), and The Last Resort. She was also the author of many works of non-fiction, including The Language of Clothes, Don't Tell the Grownups, Familiar Spirits (a memoir of the poet James Merrill) and two collections of essays and reviews, Reading for Fun and Words and Worlds. She taught literature, folklore and creative writing at Cornell University for many years and was the Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita. She lived in upstate New York but also spent much time in Key West, Florida and in London, all of which provided settings for her fiction. She married the writer Edward Hower, and had three sons and three grandchildren. Alison Lurie died in 2020.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784876289 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784876283 |
| Title | The Nowhere City |
| Author | Alison Lurie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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