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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

Lurie, Alison

Paperback

HumorRomanceLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0812976312
ISBN13: 9780812976311
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Nov 14 2006
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.16 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
WINNER 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.

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