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The Last Resort
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Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny becomes involved with some intriguing local characters including Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically attractive manager of a women-only guest house.Wife, secretary, confidante, housekeeper – might Jenny at last break free from her role as Wilkie’s support act?WITH A NEW PREFACE FROM ALISON LURIE’Full of sparkish – indeed Muriel Sparkish – observations and gently subversive wit… Lurie beautifully handles the ecstatic liberation of lesbian love’ Independent
Additional information
| Weight | 0.208 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.5 × 13 × 20 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 256 |
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| Year Published | 2020-9-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784876275 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Review Quote | The Last Resort, like all of Lurie's novels, concerns men and women looking for the perfect partner… If there's one thing Lurie does brilliantly, it is to describe the swift shifts that occur in emotional temperature whenever passion's involved….as funny, wicked and smart as anything she has ever written |
| Other text | The Last Resort retains all [Lurie's] compulsive readability. Its prose is crisp with astringent acumen and witty alertness |
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