Последние издания книг Элисон Лури
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Truth and Consequences Элисон Лури
ISBN: 9781784876296 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Vintage Books 'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books
Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape.
Delia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales - she is, in her own estimation, a 'Great Artist'. Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation.
Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles? -
Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Open Road Media Язык: Английский In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a potential romantic partner. In a Western-cut suit and a rawhide tie, he is a sanitary engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a group tour. He’s the very opposite of her type, but before Vinnie knows it, she’s spending more and more time with him.
Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague, a young, handsome English professor whose marriage and self-esteem are both on the rocks. But Fred Turner is also about to find consolation—in the arms of the most beautiful actress in England. Stylish and highborn, she introduces Fred to a glamorous, yet eccentric, London scene that he never expected to encounter.
The course of these two relationships makes up the story of Foreign Affairs—a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner, and an entertaining, poignant tale from the author of The War Between the Tates and The Last Resort, “one of this country’s most able and witty novelists” (The New York Times). -
Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
ISBN: 978-0-749-39793-7 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский "Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred have love affairs in London. 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... I devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once" Penelope Lively,…
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Last Resort Элисон Лури
ISBN: 9780099275794 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as rare a creature as the endangered species he works to preserve. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. 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. -
Правда о Лорин Джонс Элисон Лури
ISBN: 5-86471-397-X Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Эксмо, Фантом Пресс Язык: Русский Полли Альтер числит себя феминисткой. Не самой активной, но доверять мужчинам она отказывается наотрез. Особенно после развода, когда ее враждебность к ним подогревает лучшая подруга Джин, по мнению которой мужчины ничем не лучше грязи под ногтями. То ли дело крепкая женская дружба и, конечно, работа. Полли пишет биографию выдающейся художницы Лорин Джонс, которая умерла, так и не получив при жизни достойного признания. Поли твердо решила доказать, что Лорин Джонс стала жертвой мужских амбиций, эгоизма и мужского шовинизма. Если бы не мужчины, Лорин Джонс была бы сейчас не только знаменита, но и жива. Но все оказывается далеко не так просто. И чем дальше Полли продвигается в поисках правды о Лорин Джонс, чем больше погружается в ее жизнь, тем запутаннее становится ее собственная.
Роман Элисон Лури о том, что жизнь полна оттенков и невозможно уложить ее в схему, как бы того ни хотелось. Пикантность книге придает то, что убежденная феминистка Элисон Лури не побоялась вволю посмеяться над воинствующими феминистками. -
Truth and Consequences Alison Lurie
ISBN: 0670034398 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Penguin Publishing Group Язык: Английский Book Description "One can read Lurie as one might read Jane Austen, with continual delight," Joyce Carol Oates has said about novelist Alison Lurie. And author John Fowles has remarked, "There is no American writer I have read with more consistent pleasure and sympathy over the years." Now, with her fine new novel, Lurie returns to the setting that have delighted her fans throughout her long career the university campus. An energetic and attractive forty, Jane Mackenzie is the administrativedirector at Corinth Universitys Center for the Humanities. Unfortunately, her formerly healthy and athletic husband Alan, a history fellow at the center, has suffered a debilitating back injury and is becoming more and more dependent on Jane. But with the arrival of Delia Delaney, a pre-Raphaelite beauty, bestselling writer, and the newest celebrity at the center, Alan gradually begins to recover, becoming well enough for a not-so-harmless liaison. Meanwhile, Jane, who all her life has triedto be a good woman, finds herself falling in love with Delias husband. A modern social satire that recalls the best of David Lodge and Mary McCarthy, Truth and Consequences is one of Luries finest works, echoing her popular university novels Foreign Affairs and The War Between the Tates. -
Иностранные связи Элисон Лури
ISBN: 5-86471-380-5 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Фантом Пресс Язык: Русский Профессору английской литературы Винни Майнер пятьдесят четыре, она не очень красива и давно поставила крест на своей личной жизни. Побывав замужем, Винни раз и навсегда отказалась от идеи брака. Изредка в ее постели появляются партнеры, но не более того. Она довольна своей жизнью, работой и собой. Но все меняется, когда Винни в очередной раз отправляется в Англию. И взбаламутил ее жизнь неотесанный мужлан Чак из американского захолустья... Фред Тернер, молодой коллега Винни, неприлично красив и терпеть не может Англию. В этой стране его раздражает буквально все: еда, погода, аборигены. Его лондонская жизнь - сплошная тоска, пока в нее…
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Boys And Girls Forever Элисон Лури
ISBN: 978-0701175191 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: Chatto & Windus Язык: Английский It often seems that the most gifted authors of books for children are not like other writers: instead, in some essential way, they are children themselves. E. Nesbit devoted weeks to building a toy town out of kitchenware. James Barrie spent his holidays playing pirates and Indians with the four Davies boys. Laurent deBrunhoff, who continued his father's Babar series, is still climbing trees at the age of 70. Beatrix Potter preferred the company of animals and pets to that of eligible young dancing partners at balls. In these fascinating studies, Alison Lurie's subjects range from what fairy tales teach us, to children's games and poetry by and for children, from book illustrators to enchanted forests and secret gardens in children's literature. -
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups Alison Lurie
ISBN: 0316246255 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Back Bay Books Язык: Английский The Subversive Power of Children's Literature In "Don't Tell the Grown-Ups," one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators explores the world of children's literature -- from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, from classic fairy tales to A.A. Milne, from Beatrix Potter to J.R.R. Tolkien -- and shows that many of the most enduring books for children share a surprising quality: they challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values.
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The Truth About Lorin Jones Alison Lurie
ISBN: 0517079755 Год издания: 1992 Издательство: Random House Value Publishing Язык: Английский This 1988 novel follows Polly Alter, who is researching a book about Lorin Jones, a brilliant painter who died too young, through a series of encounters with people in her own life and people in Lorin's... toward what she hopes will be the truth about Lorin Jones.
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Ne le dites pas aux grands Alison Lurie
ISBN: 978-2869304987 Год издания: 1991 Издательство: Rivages Язык: Французский "Winnie l'Ourson" n'est pas un ouvrage habituellement considéré comme subversif, pas plus que "Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer", "Alice au pays des merveilles" ou "Peter Pan". Néanmoins, si de tels classiques apparemment anodins connaissent un succès durable, c'est en partie parce qu'ils font la satire de la société adulte et de ses conventions. Si les enfants forment une tribu à part, possédant une culture propre, ces ouvrages en sont les textes sacrés. Avec les contes de fées, les comptines et les histoires drôles, ils constituent la littérature clandestine de l'enfance. Alison Lurie est professeur de littérature à Cornell University.…
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Conflits de famille Элисон Лури
Год издания: 1990 Издательство: Rivages Ce livre, un des plus célèbres d'Alison Lurie, publié en 1975, est un roman qui satirise toute l'Amérique des années soixante et soixante-dix, pendant la guerre du Viêt-nam. On retrouve certains personnages de ses premiers romans et le cadre de la ville universitaire de Corinth, lieu de querelles sanglantes et comiques au sein d'une même famille : les Tate. Des conflits de générations séparent, au-delà de la seule incompréhension, les enfants des parents. Brian Tate, un sévère intellectuel, ne comprend pas le comportement de ses enfants Matilda et Jeffrey. Sa femme, Erica, quant à elle, s'interroge sur sa relation avec Brian, qu'elle soupçonne (avec raison) d'avoir une liaison avec une de ses étudiantes. Les découvertes combinées de l'adultère et des joies du sexe, d'une part, des exigences d'inddépendance confrontées avec la vie de famille d'autre part, font de cette peinture-satire une drôlissime comédie.