{"product_id":"9780812976311","title":"Foreign Affairs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Miner, a fifty-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 in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso in London is Vinnie’s colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead, he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth American, both abroad, and both achingly lonely, Vinnie and Fred play out their confused alienation and dizzying romantic liaisons in Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e remains an enduring comic masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.”\u003cbr\u003e –Elizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.”\u003cbr\u003e–John Fowles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An ingenious, touching book.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A flawless jewel.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015369212144,"sku":"9780812976311","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812976311_p0.jpg?v=1763738816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812976311","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}