The War Between the Tates
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876265
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99

The War Between the Tates

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With equal measures of empathy and humour, this is the story of a family breakdown against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, second wave feminism, a widening generation gap, and the turbulence of a changing world.

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action.

Can the Tates marriage survive? Lurie skewers both sides in this brilliant campus satire of 1960s feminism, parenthood, infidelity and academic pomposity.

'Her humour is a delight and she writes with an almost unholy relish' Irish Times
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876265
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • 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 The War Between the Tates

Put together with such skill the effect is something glorious in its entirety and flawless under the closest scrutiny; like a fine piece of needlework

The Times

Her humour is a delight and she writes with an almost unholy relish

Irish Times

Lurie miraculously seems to understand men as well as she understands women... she constructs her American academic backdrops with the craftsmanlike skill; she evinces rare wisdom, wit, and compassion; and she writes like an angel

Sunday Times

Intellectual comedy... a pleasure

Peter Ackroyd