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  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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    FOREIGN AFFAIRS
    ALISON LURIE
    This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. An...

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  • REAL PEOPLE
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    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 responsibilitie...

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  • THE LAST RESORT
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    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 tort...

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  • THE NOWHERE CITY
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    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 Ph...

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
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    THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
    ALISON LURIE
    How do the spaces we inhabit affect us—and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, “breezy” read (The Washington Post). In 1981, 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 allusio...

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  • WORDS AND WORLDS
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    WORDS AND WORLDS
    ALISON LURIE
    Poignant remembrances and sharp observations from the “most able and witty” Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Foreign Affairs (The New York Times).   This engaging new collection of essays from the New York Times–bestselling novelist gathers together her reflections on the writing life; fond recollections of inspiring friends; and perceptive, playful commentary on preoccupations...

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  • 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...
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    $385.00