Foreign Affairs
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876241
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

Foreign Affairs

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This is the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy and tragedy in human relationships, the great Alison Lurie

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian
Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she'll see him again. But wet, windy London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one's own life.

Foreign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA CRAIG
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876241
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie, born in 1926, is an American writer and academic. She has published nine novels, including Foreign Affairs, which won the Pulitzer Prize, one collection of short stories and several works of non-fiction. She has also taught literature, folklore, and creative writing at Cornell University since 1969 and is the Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita. She lives in upstate New York but during her career has routinely spent time in Florida and London, providing inspiration for her novels. Her career as a writer has seen critical and commercial success, and in both her fiction and academic work she has done much to promote the study of children’s literature. She has three sons and three grandchildren.

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Boys And Girls Forever
The Last Resort
The War Between the Tates
The Nowhere City
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Praise for Foreign Affairs

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
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