Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

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

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 1984-08-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780394540764

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	1984-08-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780394540764

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