By: Alison Lurie
Virginia Miner, a 50-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...
By: Alison Lurie
Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant, Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding it will make excellent study material. But they find it hard to maintain their deception, especially as...
By: Alison Lurie
Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with silver-tongued Will Thomas, a self-confessed...
By: Alison Lurie
In the midst of the Great Depression, two families spend a holiday weekend together―but while their daughters cement their friendship, their parents tear their marriages apart. Dozing in the backseat of her father's car, Mary Ann Hubbard...
By: Alison Lurie
At the end of his tether, a writer travels to Key West with his wife. She's hoping to cheer him up, but he's hoping for something more fatal…. Every schoolboy in America knows the work of Wilkie Walker. A pioneering naturalist, he won...
By: Alison Lurie
A young couple from New England's Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles. When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. He's...
By: Alison Lurie
When a wife reaches her breaking point, and her husband begins an ill-advised affair, civil war breaks out within their family.Erica Tate wouldn't mind getting up in the morning if she enjoyed her children more. Until puberty struck, Jeffrey...
By: Alison Lurie
The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and...
By: Alison Lurie
In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status, and individual psychology. The Language of Clothes came to be highly regarded in the literature of...