FOREIGN AFFAIRS follows two very different
academics from the English Department of a fictional upstate New York college
that seems very much like Cornell on research sojourns in London.
The two, Virginia Miner and Fred Turner,
are a study in contrasts, although both are very interested in finding sexual
partners.
Virginia is a middle-aged, tenured
professor, set in her ways and in love with London and everything English. Her
dream man would be an English gentleman. She does find someone—radically different.
Fred, fresh from splitting up with his
wife, hooks up (literally) with a British television actress who introduces him
to the city and country’s upper class and artistic wild set.
Alison Lurie tells
a tale of two individuals which is poignant, witty, and spiced with surprises.
Lurie won the Pulitzer Prize, deservedly
for FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN 1985. Despite her accomplished career as a writer of
many novels, I just discovered her in a search for a readable, serious book.
I will be reading more of Lurie in the
future.
A suggestion: My novel, THE PENCIL ARTIST, is now available as a free download on, Smashwords and Barnes and Noble.
A suggestion: My novel, THE PENCIL ARTIST, is now available as a free download on, Smashwords and Barnes and Noble.
Try it, enjoy it, and if you are in the
mood, review it.
