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Table of Contents Cover About the Author Also by Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs Copyright Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 ‘Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred have love affairs in London. Fred’s is a fraught liaison with an actress, while Vinnie drifts into a relationship with an engineer from Oklahoma she met on the plane, a brash uneducated stereotype American who finally beguiles her (and the reader) with his uncomplicated goodness… I devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once’ Penelope Lively, Sunday Telegraph ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alison Lurie is Professor of American Literature at Cornell University. Foreign Affairs won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 and The Truth About Lorin Jones won the Prix Femina Etranger in 1989. ALSO BY ALISON LURIE The Nowhere City Imaginary Friends Real People Only Children The Truth About Lorin Jones Love and Friendship The War Between the Tates The last Resort Women and Ghosts V.R. Lang: Poems and Plays. With a memoir by Alison Lurie The Language of Clothes Don’t Tell the Grownups: Subversive Children’s Literature Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales Fabulous Beasts The Heavenly Zoo FOREIGN AFFAIRS Alison Lurie This ebook is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form (including any digital form) other than this in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Epub ISBN: 9781446425534 Version 1.10 www.randomhouse.co.uk Published by Vintage 1998 14 Copyright © Alison Lurie 1984 The right of Alison Lurie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1985 Vintage Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 www.randomhouse.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780749397937 For Diane Johnson 1 As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.
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