Alison Lurie

264 Pages·2006·1.26 MB·English

by  Affairs Foreign

Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Also by Alison Lurie
Foreign Affairs
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
‘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 an actress, while Vinnie drifts into a relationship with an engineer
from Oklahoma she met on the plane, a brash uneducated stereotype 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
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alison Lurie is Professor of American Literature at Cornell University. Foreign
Affairs won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 and The Truth About Lorin Jones won the
Prix Femina Etranger in 1989.
ALSO BY ALISON LURIE
The Nowhere City
Imaginary Friends
Real People
Only Children
The Truth About Lorin Jones
Love and Friendship
The War Between the Tates
The last Resort
Women and Ghosts
V.R. Lang: Poems and Plays. With a memoir by Alison Lurie
The Language of Clothes
Don’t Tell the Grownups: Subversive Children’s Literature
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Fabulous Beasts
The Heavenly Zoo
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Alison Lurie
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Epub ISBN: 9781446425534
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Published by Vintage 1998
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Copyright © Alison Lurie 1984
The right of Alison Lurie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988
First published in Great Britain by
Michael Joseph 1985
Vintage
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is available from the British Library
ISBN 9780749397937
For Diane Johnson
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As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me,
Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.