Foreign Affairs.

LURIE, Alison. [Annie Dillard].

Item Number: 126305

New York: Random House, 1984.

First edition of Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, “For Annie Alison Lurie ‘Well, all right,’ she says to him, ‘come along then.'” The recipient, American author Annie Dillard has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and her books have been translated into at least ten languages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor. An exceptional association, linking two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors.

"In Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie has brilliantly described the situation of the new American expatriates: not Henry James' wealthy travelers picking their way among the bric-a-brac of great houses, but the academics spending their days in the London Library and the Reading Room of the British Museum" (Mary Gordon). Upon publication, Foreign Affairs won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985, was nominated for the 1984 National Book Award, and was made into a television movie of the same name in 1993. "A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers" (Elizabeth Hardwick).