Foreign Affairs

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Paperback
1994
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 25 Jul 1994
ISBN 10: 0749397934
ISBN 13: 9780749397937
Book Overview: Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows two academics travelling between America and London as they embark on entwined journeys of love and literature.
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1985 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1985.

Media Reviews

The seventh and latest work of fiction by Alison Lurie, who teaches English at Cornell University and has quietly but surely established herself as one of this country's most able and witty novelists... Wonderfully stimulating for its sheer performance as a novel. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt * New York Times *
I am convinced that Alison Lurie's fiction will long outlast that of many currently more fashionable names. There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy over the years. Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton -- John Fowles * Sunday Times *
A brilliant novel - her best I think. The book is a triumph, and not simply of style...Foreign Affairs is witty, acerbic, and sometimes fiendishly clever -- Paul Bailey * Evening Standard *
Warm, clever and funny * Times Literary Supplement *

Author Bio

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.