Truth and Consequences

Truth and Consequences
Alison Lurie
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
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9781784876296
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On a hot midsummer morning, after sixteen years of marriage, Jane saw her husband fifty feet away and did not recognise him. Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance, but he has also changed in other ways: he has become glum and demanding. Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. When she longs for escape, her mother accuses her of selfishness - of course she can't abandon a man'so handicapped and needy. Meanwhile Henry cares in a different way for his self-centred wife, Delia, a writer and researcher specialising in fairytales, who in her own estimation is a Great Artist . He tends the flame, making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation. Can sexy Delia, with her trailing scarves and lacy shirts, coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? can'the couples swap roles?
"Mordant and entertaining, and wonderfully expansive about a time, a place, and the corrosive effect of selfishness" -- Penelope Lively Spectator "Hours of bitter-sweet, highly intelligent fun" Scotsman "An enjoyably spiky minuet of human selfishness" The Times "Sly and funny. A deeply pleasurable page-turner" Observer "It is Lurie, not Updike whom people will one day read to discover what our life and times were really like. Dazzling intelligent, witty, perceptive and engaging, she is not to be missed" New Statesman
Alison Lurie is a Professor of English at Cornell University. Her non fiction books include studies of folklore and children's literature, and her novels include such favourites as The War Between the Tates, Foreign Affairs, The Truth about Lorin Jones and Last Resort. She divides her time between Ithaca and Florida in the United States and Maida Vale in London.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784876296
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 240

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