Foreign Affairs - by Alison Lurie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Foreign Affairs chronicles the romantic adventures of two Americans in London. Vinnie Miner, a lonely middle-aged professor of literature, finds love and erotic confidence with Chuck, an engineer from Tulsa who dresses like a cowboy and at first represents everything she doesn't like about America. Alternating chapters tell the story of young, handsome, and unhappy Professor Fred Turner, who falls for a famous but mentally unbalanced British actress.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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, <i>Foreign Affairs</i> remains an enduring comic masterpiece. <p/>"A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers."<br> -Elizabeth Hardwick <p/>"There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . <i>Foreign Affairs</i> earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton."<br>-John Fowles <p/>"If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them."<br>-<i>USA Today</i> <p/>"An ingenious, touching book."<br>-<i>Newsweek</i> <p/>"A flawless jewel."<br>-<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alison Lurie</b> is the author of many highly praised novels, including<i> The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones</i> (Prix Femina Etranger), and <i>Foreign Affairs</i> (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.
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