Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alison lurie

12 resultados

alison lurie Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • WORDS AND WORLDS
    ebook
    WORDS AND WORLDS
    ALISON LURIE
    In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and nea...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
    ebook
    THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
    ALISON LURIE
    In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, p...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS
    ebook
    FOREIGN AFFAIRS
    ALISON LURIE
    Two unexpected romances in London unfold in this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel from "one of this country's most able and witty novelists" ( The New York Times). In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never ha...

    $274.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE LAST RESORT
    ebook
    THE LAST RESORT
    ALISON LURIE
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "sparkling, smart" tale of an aging writer and his younger wife looking for new life—or a way to end it—in Key West ( The New York Times).   Every schoolboy in America knows the work of author Wilkie Walker, who won fame and fortune with his accessible nature books. But as he turns seventy, his renown is nearly gone. Now he sits up at night tor...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE NOWHERE CITY
    ebook
    THE NOWHERE CITY
    ALISON LURIE
    In this "excellent" novel of "rare understanding" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, culture shock consumes a young Harvard couple in Los Angeles ( The New York Times).   When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. After losing his fellowship, he is out of work and one thesis short of a P...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • ONLY CHILDREN
    ebook
    ONLY CHILDREN
    ALISON LURIE
    A novel of childlike wonder and adult discord during the Great Depression—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nowhere City.   Dozing in the back seat of her father's car, Mary Ann Hubbard is the happiest eight-year-old in the country. It's 1935, and she and her parents are going to spend Fourth of July weekend at her headmistress's farm in upstate New York. Joining them...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES
    ebook
    THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES
    ALISON LURIE
    In this comedy by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a biographer out to vindicate a neglected female artist learns that the truth is never tidy.   Polly Alter is through with men. Recovering from her divorce, she has taken a year off from her museum job to write a biography of Lorin Jones, a sensitive painter who died young and nearly forgotten. Polly is determined to bring the ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE WAR BETWEEN THE TATES
    ebook
    THE WAR BETWEEN THE TATES
    ALISON LURIE
    A husband's affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this "near perfect comedy of manners" by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Real People ( The New York Times).   Erica Tate wouldn't mind getting up in the morning if her children were less intolerable. Until puberty struck, Jeffrey and Matilda were absolute darlings, but in the last year, they have become sul...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • IMAGINARY FRIENDS
    ebook
    IMAGINARY FRIENDS
    ALISON LURIE
    Two sociologists infiltrate a cult that pulls them into madness in this " barbed and richly entertaining" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Wall Street Journal).   Once the nation's most popular sociologist, Tom McMann searches for a research subject that will invigorate his career. Unlike any study he's seen before, he targets the Truth Seekers, an up-and-coming...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
    ebook
    LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
    ALISON LURIE
    In the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "excellent" debut, a professor's wife searches for liberation at the hands of a music instructor ( The New York Times).   Though born in New York, the men of Emmy Turner's family have long found their spiritual home in the idyllic Convers College. Her father, brothers, and uncles entered the New England intellectual enclave as boys and cam...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • REAL PEOPLE
    ebook
    REAL PEOPLE
    ALISON LURIE
    An artists' colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this "witty, knowing, and perceptive" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The New Yorker).   The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it's a Garden of Eden where every artistic curiosity is explored. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibiliti...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • GENTE DE VERDAD
    GENTE DE VERDAD
    LURIE, ALISON
    Un humor deslumbrante… una magnífica galería de retratos irónicos. The London TimesUna de las novelistas más capaces e ingeniosas de este país. The New York Times Book ReviewUno lee a Lurie como podría leer a Jane Austen, con placer ininterrumpido. Joyce Carol OatesGente de verdad se desarrolla en una mansión victoriana de Nueva Inglaterra rodeada de doscientas hectáreas de ter...
    Agotado

    $385.00