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Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans.
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Classical in form, intimate, contemporary and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Alison Lurie
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 291
- Publisher
- Avon Books, Abacus, Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780785799535
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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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