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The
2007 Award
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Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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energetic and attractive forty, Jane Mackenzie is the administrative director
at Corinth University's Center for the Humanities. Unfortunately, her formerly
healthy and athletic husband Alan, a history fellow at the center, has suffered
a debilitating back injury and is becoming more and more dependent on Jane.
But with the arrival of Delia Delaney, a pre-Raphaelite beauty, bestselling
writer, and the newest celebrity at the center, Alan gradually begins to
recover, becoming well enough for a not-so-harmless liaison. Meanwhile,
Jane, who all her life has tried to be a good woman, finds herself falling
in love with Delia's husband. A modern social satire that recalls the best of David Lodge and Mary McCarthy, Truth and Consequences is one of Lurie's finest works, echoing her popular university novels Foreign Affairs and The War Between the Tates. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Her most recent book was Familiar Spirits. She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University. |
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