Foreign Affairs : A Novel (Paperback)

from spiralsheep

89/2021. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie is a 1984 novel about two lonely USian academic scholars in London. After I began I realised I've read this before, at least a quarter of a century ago though so I didn't remember anything about it. Clue: it's about sex (but avoids Bad Sex in Fiction Award...

from novelcommentary

finished the book call Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie and it was a pleasant read. It described the loves of two professors from America who go to England for research on their respective projects. One is a woman in her 50s named Vinnie who falls for a Midwestern sanitation engineer. Being a prof...

from ffortsa

When I started this book, it felt like a typical 'Americans in London' or 'academics on holiday' story, and I didn't hold high hopes for it. But it got better, and better, and I even began to like some of the characters. Our reading group discussion started in much the same vein, but people kept ...

from magicians_nephew

Alison Lurie wrote so many great novels its hard to know where to begin. Her Pulitzer winner was Foreign Affairs a small novel about two Americans abroad. Vinny is an older single woman an academic a scholar of nursery rhymes who loves England and is believed me when i say this really set in he...

from PensiveCat

Novel follow two Americans during a stint in London, who work at the same university but are completely different people. It's also about their foreign affairs.