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Foreign AffairsWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia 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. Also in London is
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia 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. Also 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. Both 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, Foreign Affairs remains an enduring comic masterpiece. "A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers."-Elizabeth Hardwick "There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton."
-John Fowles "If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them."
-USA Today "An ingenious, touching book."
-Newsweek "A flawless jewel."
-Philadelphia Inquirer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 11/14/2006
ISBN: 9780812976311
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.66d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10837 / Foreign Affairs
Reading Level: 7.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19
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A good retelling of the highlights from the Scarlet Letter
A good retelling of the highlights from the Scarlet Letter. The art provides a good visual for a kid to reflect on after having read the story. The art for Wilson is very telling as well; he looks like the lout I always saw him as.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Lovely illustration.
I love the Scarlet Letter manga. It's very beautifully illustrated, and the characters are interesting. I highly recommend this book for those want a visual medium of the classic novel.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
★★★★★ 3
Not new
Format: Hardcover
There was no indication the book was used and I had to spend $37 for it, which seems outrageous.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
★★★★★ 5
A great buy
It's a very thick book and a good story my friend loved it and so did I would recommend as a good gift 💝💝💝
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2020
★★★★★ 5
A mom's review: They read my mind
Format: Hardcover
I was putting together broad categories for how to instruct my family of boys on aspects of the civil war. Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman read my mind. From captive blacks to reconstruction and the rise of the Klan terrorists, this book does it all. I don't need to instruct - this book paints vivid pictures for my kids to absorb, relate to, and build on according to their areas of interest. My other resources come into play, but this book is the Civil War overview I had been trying to create myself. Includes disease (malaria, gangrene) and Andersonville prison, suspension of habeus corpus and desertions, Mathew Brady's photographs, hunger on the homefront, desertions, the assassination of Lincoln, more. Marvellous.
I can't say enough about the quality of the graphics and narration in the book. This is graphic history as it should be done.
Bravo to the authors and publishers from not shying away from the cold truths. Lincoln's presidency was ambiguous on Constitutional questions. James K. Polk was a racist SOB, like most democrats. The KKK was/is the terror arm of the democrats.
Great book for Junior High and up. I can't recommend it strongly enough. You probably need one for every child in your family, because they will not want to share. More books like this, please.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2015