{"product_id":"foreign-affairs-9780812976311","title":"Foreign Affairs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alison Lurie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirginia 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. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso in London is Vinnie's colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead, he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth American, both abroad, and both achingly lonely, Vinnie and Fred play out their confused alienation and dizzying romantic liaisons in Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e remains an enduring comic masterpiece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Elizabeth Hardwick \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.\"\u003cbr\u003e-John Fowles \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An ingenious, touching book.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A flawless jewel.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083779530903,"sku":"9780812976311","price":875.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780812976311.webp?v=1767636108","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/foreign-affairs-9780812976311","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}