Foreign Affairs
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE <br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>“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<br><br>“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<br><br>“If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.”<br>–<i>USA Today</i><br><br>“An ingenious, touching book.”<br>–<i>Newsweek</i><br><br>“A flawless jewel.”<br>–<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>
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