Alison Lurie

• Jun-1974
• / General Fiction
• 

When a wife reaches her breaking point, and her husband begins an ill-advised affair, civil war breaks out within their family.

Erica Tate wouldn''t mind getting up in the morning if she enjoyed her children more. Until puberty struck, Jeffre...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
• 

• Mar-1979
• / General Fiction
• 

On a run-down farm in 1935, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandin...

• Aug-1984
• / General Fiction
• 

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 rathe...

• May-1986
• / General Fiction
• 

A young couple from New England''s Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles.

When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. He'...

• Aug-1986
• / General Fiction
• 

"

At an artistic Garden of Eden, one writer finds that serpents lurk in every corner.

The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it may as well be paradise. Away from family, friends, and ordi...

• Sep-1988
• / General Fiction
• 

Polly Alter, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions...

• Feb-1991
• / General Fiction
• 

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs, here's a devastatingly funny look at the foibles of modern times. Two sociology professors take up the study of a small religious cult, and the ensuing chaos wreaks havoc on the two men's liv...

• Aug-1993
• / General Fiction
• 

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 silver-tongued Will Thomas, a self-confessed libertine. ...

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction
• 

The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woma...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
• 

Sixteen legends of the constellations and how they got their names, taken from such varied sources as ancient Greece, Babylon, Egypt, Sumeria, the Bible, Norway, the Balkans, Indonesia, and the American Indians....

• Jun-1998
• / General Fiction
• 

"

At the end of his tether, a writer travels to Key West with his wife. She''s hoping to cheer him up, but he''s hoping for something more fatal….

Every schoolboy in America knows the work of Wilkie Walker. A pioneering naturalist, he ...

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction
• 

• May-2003
• / General Fiction
• 

The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are one of the oldest known forms of literature, and also one of the most popular and enduring. While most people think of the fairy tale as having come into existence almost magically ...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
• 

In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potte...

• May-2005
• / Fantasy
• 

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, an...

• Dec-2006
• / General Fiction
• 

Over the years, Alison Lurie has earned a devoted readership for her satiric wit and storytelling acumen. With Truth and Consequences, described by the New Yorker as "a comedy of adultery with a comedy of academia thrown in," Lurie returns with a mod...

• Mar-2008
• / Fantasy
• 

The black geese have been seen flying over the village, stealing children for the witch Baba Yaga, so Elena should be looking after her baby brother. But instead she runs off to play with her friends, leaving the baby alone on the grass. Jessica S...

• / General Fiction
•