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The War Between the Tates

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784876265

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 128mm

  • Weight: 293g

  • RRP: £9.99

The War Between the Tates

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action.

Can the Tates marriage survive? Lurie skewers both sides in this brilliant campus satire of 1960s feminism, parenthood, infidelity and academic pomposity.

'Her humour is a delight and she writes with an almost unholy relish' Irish Times

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784876265

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 128mm

  • Weight: 293g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Put together with such skill the effect is something glorious in its entirety and flawless under the closest scrutiny; like a fine piece of needlework

    The Times

  • Her humour is a delight and she writes with an almost unholy relish

    Irish Times

  • Lurie miraculously seems to understand men as well as she understands women... she constructs her American academic backdrops with the craftsmanlike skill; she evinces rare wisdom, wit, and compassion; and she writes like an angel

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie published ten novels, among them Foreign Affairs (which won the Pulitzer Prize), The Truth About Lorin Jones (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), and The Last Resort. She was also the author of many works of non-fiction, including The Language of Clothes, Don't Tell the Grownups, Familiar Spirits, and two collections of essays and reviews, Reading for Fun and Words and Worlds. She taught literature, folklore and creative writing at Cornell University for many years and was the Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita. She lived in upstate New York but also spent much time in Key West, Florida and in London, all of which provided settings for her fiction. She married the writer Edward Hower, and had three sons and three grandchildren. Alison Lurie died in 2020.

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