Alison Lurie

Foreign Affairs is a 1984 novel by Alison Lurie, which concerns itself with American academics in England. The novel won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985, was nominated for the 1984 National Book Award, and was made into a television movie in 1993.

Lolly Willowes è una donna amabile e solitaria, «benestante e con tutta probabilità destinata a non sposarsi». Va a Londra dal fratello maggiore. Ma rimane sempre un essere a parte rispetto alla famiglia, dove a poco a poco diventa una «zia Lolly» che tutti pensano di conoscere come un soprammobile. Intanto la mente …

The War Between the Tates is a campus novel by Alison Lurie that takes place at an elite university during the upheavals of the late 1960s and gently and deftly skewers all sides in the turmoils and conflicts of that era — opposition to the Vietnam war, the start of the feminist movement, the generation gap, sexual …