Love and Friendship
  • Published: 18 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876302
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

Love and Friendship

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The stunning debut by Pulitzer Prize-winner, Alison Lurie: a stylish, affecting and compelling novel about the conflict between desire and responsibility.

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.

'Lurie is and really is, different. She writes with great elegance, as frostily clear as the climate she describes; and with sharp intelligence piercing through every sentence. She is very funny as well' Observer
  • Published: 18 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876302
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie, born in 1926, is an American writer and academic. She has published nine novels, including Foreign Affairs, which won the Pulitzer Prize, one collection of short stories and several works of non-fiction. She has also taught literature, folklore, and creative writing at Cornell University since 1969 and is the Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita. She lives in upstate New York but during her career has routinely spent time in Florida and London, providing inspiration for her novels. Her career as a writer has seen critical and commercial success, and in both her fiction and academic work she has done much to promote the study of children’s literature. She has three sons and three grandchildren.

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Praise for Love and Friendship

Perceptive and intelligent

Sunday Times

A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight

Sunday Telegraph

Lurie is and really is, different. She writes with great elegance, as frostily clear as the climate she describes; and with sharp intelligence piercing through every sentence. She is very funny as well

Observer

Awesomely good

Sunday Times

Not for the prim, this is definitely adult education, as well as a bright entertainment

Kirkus Reviews

I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational.

Helen Simpson