Foreign Affairs: A Novel

Foreign Affairs: A Novel

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about childrenâ€™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 Vinnieâ€™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 Lurieâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, Foreign Affairs remains an enduring comic masterpiece.

â€œA splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.â€
â€“Elizabeth Hardwick

â€œThere 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.â€
â€“John Fowles

â€œIf you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.â€
â€“USA Today

â€œAn ingenious, touching book.â€
â€“Newsweek

â€œA flawless jewel.â€
â€“Philadelphia Inquirer
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0812976312_used
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2006-11-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812976311

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0812976312_used
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2006-11-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812976311

Foreign Affairs: A Novel

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