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Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured teacher, is at London to focus on her new book about children's folk rhymes. Despite having a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather appears down on her fellow Americans. However in spite of this, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly gratifying affair with an Oklahoman traveler who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. Also in London is Vinnie's colleague, Fred Turner, a good-looking, flat broke, recently separated, and completely miserable young man trying to concentrate on his own research. Instead, he's distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the entire world she belongs to. Both North american, both overseas, and both achingly lonesome, Vinnie and Fred play out their mixed up alienation and dizzying affectionate liaisons in Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, Foreign Affairs remains an long lasting comic masterpiece.
