Bøger af Alison Lurie

'Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. Fred's is a fraught liaison with a waitress while Vinnie drifts into a relationship with an engineer from Oklahoma she met on the plane, a brash uneducated stereotypical American who finally beguiles her (and the reader) with his uncomplicated goodness...

This engaging new collection of essays from the New York Times?bestselling novelist gathers together her reflections on the writing life; fond recollections of inspiring friends; and perceptive, playful commentary on preoccupations ranging from children's literature to fashion and feminism.Citing her husband's comment to her that ?Nobody asked you to write a novel,? Lurie goes on to eloquently explain why there was never another choice for her. She looks back on attending Radcliffe in the 1940s?an era of wartime rations and a wall of sexism where it was understood that Harvard was only for the men.From offering a gleeful glimpse into Jonathan Miller's production of Hamlet to memorializing mentors and intimate friends such as poet James Merrill, illustrator Edward Gorey, and New York Review of Books coeditor Barbara Epstein, Lurie celebrates the creative artists who encouraged and inspired her.A lifelong devotee of children's literature, she suggests saying no to Narnia, revisits the phenomenon of Harry Potter, and tells the truth about the ultimate good bad boy, Pinocchio.Returning to a favorite subject, fashion, Lurie explores the symbolic meaning of aprons, enthuses on how the zipper made dressing and undressing faster?and sexier?and tells how, feeling abandoned by Vogue at age sixty, she finally found herself freed from fashion's restrictions on women.Always spirited no matter the subject, Lurie ultimately conveys a joie de vivre that comes from a lifetime of never abandoning her ?childish impulse to play with words, to reimagine the world.?

'Emmy Turner's marriage to a hard-working and dullish lecturer at Convert College suffers from various tensions. Emmy has a highly sensual affair with a non-creating musician-in-residence, and her husband suspects everyone but the right man, going nearly insane with jealousy in the process...

Alan Mackenzie's bad back is ruining both his and his wife Jane's lives. After years of happy marriage, these two attractive and intelligent people have stopped making love and are starting to resent each other.

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman.

Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. As he grows even stranger, Jenny becomes involved with some exotic local characters - including Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically attractive manager of a women-only guest house.

Once the Tates were an attractive family, but now Erica is bored, Brian's career is at a standstill, and the children have become revolting teenagers. Then Erica discovers that her husband is carrying on with one of his students. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Foreign Affairs".

Are some of the world's most talented writers of children's books essentially children themselves?