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THE LAST RESORT
(1998)
| "This
is Alison Lurie's first novel for ten years, but she has not
lost her touch Lurie is as acute as ever in her observation
of human nature and {we} see how illogical people can be."
Read
the first chapter |
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| WOMEN
AND GHOSTS
(1994)
| "In her fiction, Ms.
Lurie is often cutting, but never heartless. An unadvertised
compassion underlies her sometimes curmudgeonly pose; there
is always humor in her ill humor -- and nowhere so much as
in her first collection of stories, 'Women and Ghosts." |
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TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES
(1988)
| ". . .will undoubtedly
shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse since it
dares to make fun of feminism . . . confirms Ms. Lurie's stature
as our leading comic novelist." |
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FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
(1979)
The 1985 Pulitzer Prize
winner for fiction. |
This flawless novel earned the 1985
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and once again illustrates Lurie's
talent for capturing the subtle ironies of human relationships.
Two professors are sent to London on research assignments
but end up spending more time together than on their work! |
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| ONLY
CHILDREN
(1979)
| "Mrs Lurie's novels
explore the dangerous relations between the imaginary and
the real with exact observations and cunning intelligence...
collectively the form a biting record of social, moral and
sexual mores" |
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WAR BETWEEN
THE TATES
(1974)
| "The War Between the
Tates' is a novel not only to read, but to reread for its
cool and revealing mastery of a social epoch; something 'light
and bright and sparkling,' in Reuben Brower's phrase for 'Pride
and Prejudice'; a near-perfect comedy of manners and morals
to put on the shelf nest to 'Vanity Fair' or 'The Egoist.'" |
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| REAL
PEOPLE
(1969)
| "On one level Real People
is a dazzlingly comic account of the way and meannesses of artists.
On another it is an allegory of the arrival at self knowledge
through the recognition of unwelcome realities...But above all
it is a superb piece of ironic portraiture" |
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| IMAGINARY
FRIENDS
(1967)
| "One of the more gifted
novelists around today, Alison Lurie is a specialist in the
transmigration of personality. . . . [a] balefully funny put-down
of behavioral 'science.'" |
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| THE
NOWHERE CITY
(1966)
| "Los Angeles, of course,
is the setting for Alison Lurie's novel 'The Nowhere City' but
Miss Lurie's excellent bookmight just as well be called 'The
Nowhere Country,' because it distills the prevailing American
social climate, of which L. A. is only the purest essence." |
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| LOVE
AND FRIENDSHIP
(1962)
| "Alison Lurie's deliciously
naughty first novel deflates our fondest illusions about the
ties that bind in friendship and illicit romance." |
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