Alison Lurie
"Praised for her wit, psychological insight, and incisive assessment of the complexities of modern life, Alison Lurie has been hailed as the contemporary counterpart of both Jane Austen and Henry James. In such novels as The War between the Tates and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs, Lurie has plied her elegant prose style to explore the dynamics of marriage, loneliness, self-delusion, and self-discovery with a vivid awareness of the surrounding social climate--be it the tumultuousness of the 1960s or the self-absorption of the 1980s." "Richard Hauer Costa's Alison Lurie is the first book-length study to appraise Lurie's major works of adult fiction and nonfiction. Beginning with her memoir of poet and playwright V.R. Lang, first published in 1959, Costa traces the evolution of Lurie's writings as she expands the boundaries of her imaginative and intellectual territories while retaining her capacity to investigate them with a relentless, unflinching pursuit of the truth."
Print Book, English, ©1992
Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, New York, Toronto, New York, ©1992