Foreign Affairs: A Novel

ISBN: 0812976312

Author: Lurie, Alison

Condition: New

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEVirginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about childrens 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 Vinnies 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 Luries 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.-Elizabeth HardwickThere is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.-John FowlesIf you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.-USA TodayAn ingenious, touching book.-NewsweekA flawless jewel.-Philadelphia Inquirer