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eBook, 2013
Current format, eBook, 2013, , Available.eBook, 2013
Current format, eBook, 2013, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award: Alison Lurie and rsquo;s supremely entertaining masterwork about two American scholars, both alone in London, who find romance in the most unlikely places Prim, divorced, and middle-aged, Vinnie Miner gave up on love long ago. On her way to London to research a book about children and rsquo;s folk rhymes and mdash;a scholarly pursuit that even her fellow academics sneer at and mdash;she finds herself sitting next to the man who will change the course of her life. Brash and na and iuml;ve, he is a sanitary engineer from Oklahoma on a package vacation. Also in London is Vinnie and rsquo;s colleague, the young, handsome English professor Fred Turner. His marriage and self-esteem are both on the rocks, but he is about to find consolation in the arms of the most beautiful actress in England. Stylish and highborn, she introduces Fred to a glamorous, yet eccentric, London scene that henever expected and mdash;or prepared and mdash;to encounter. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author and rsquo;s personal collection.
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