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Prestige, contemplative, character-led and nostalgic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Alison Lurie
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Viking, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670894598
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“WHEN JAMES MERRILL and I first met we didn't take to each other.”
Alison Lurie is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is a story of romance and deception among the faculty of a snowbound New England college. It won favorable reviews and established her as a keen observer of love in academia. It was followed by the well-received The Nowhere City (1966) and The War Between the Tates (1974). In 1984, she published Foreign Affairs, her best-known novel, which traces the erotic entanglements of two American profes
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