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"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)
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"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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"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)
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.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0749397934
- ISBN 13 9780749397937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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