Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
'Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred have love affairs in London. Fred's is a fraught liaison with a waitress while Vinnie drifts into a relationship with an engineer from Oklahoma she met on the plane, a brash uneducated stereotypical American who finally beguiles her (and the reader) with his uncomplicated goodness... I devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once' Penelope Lively, Sunday Telegraph
I devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once * Sunday Telegraph *
If you’re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs * Guardian *
Lurie..has quietly but surely established herself as one of this country's most able and witty novelists * New York Times (1984) *
Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not Genet
In Foreign Affairs no detail lacks its special piquancy. And none can be savored without leaving you with a mouthful of barbed hooks * New York Times *
If you’re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs * Guardian *
Lurie..has quietly but surely established herself as one of this country's most able and witty novelists * New York Times (1984) *
Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not Genet
In Foreign Affairs no detail lacks its special piquancy. And none can be savored without leaving you with a mouthful of barbed hooks * New York Times *
Alison Lurie's non fiction books include studies of folklore and children's literature, and her novels include such favourites as The War Between the Tates, The Truth about Lorin Jones, Last Resort, and the Pultizer Prize-winning, Foreign Affairs.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749397937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749397934 |
| Title | Foreign Affairs |
| Author | Alison Lurie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1985, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1985 |
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