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Winner of Pulitzer Prize
Random House
November 2006
On Sale: November 14, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0812976312
EAN: 9780812976311
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Fiction
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. 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. 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, Foreign Affairs
remains an enduring comic masterpiece.
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