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Welcome to the
website of
Pulitzer prize winning author,
Alison Lurie
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"One of this
country's most able and witty novelists."
The New York Times Book
Review
"One can read Lurie as one
might read Jane Austen,
with continual delight"
Joyce Carol Oates |
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An
excerpt from the novel "The Last Resort" |
At
three A.M. on a windy late-November night, Jenny
Walker woke in her historic house in an historic
New England town, and sensed from the slope of the
mattress and the chill of the flowered percale sheets
that Wilkie Walker, the world-famous writer and
naturalist, was not in bed beside her.
Often now Jenny woke to this absence. The first
time, after lying half awake for twenty minutes,
she tiptoed downstairs and found her husband sitting
in the kitchen with a mug of tea. Wilkie smiled
briefly and replied to her questions that of course
he was all right, that everything was all right.
"Go back to bed, darling," he told her,
and Jenny followed his instructions, just as she
had done for a quarter century.
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Her books can be found
in your local library
as well as at book retailers everywhere.
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