Alison Lurie
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English
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Virginia Miner, an unmarried tenured professor, is an Anglophile on leave to research a book. Fred Turner, a teacher at the same university, is recently separated, flat broke and miserable in this city where the rain never seems to end. The separate paths of these two lonely and naive innocents abroad lead them to strikingly similar destinations of newfound passion ... and unexpected love.
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English
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"As chronicler of the life and work of brilliant artist Lorin Jones, Polly Alter - museum curator and would-be painter - at first has it all figured out. Lorin, left to die alone in Key West, was done in by the white, male art establishment. But as Polly's interviewing progresses, Lorin comes down from her pedestal, and her "villains" emerge as likeable persons; at the same time, some of the truths about Polly's life are shattered or realigned"--Library...
9) Real people
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English
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At an artistic Garden of Eden, one writer finds that serpents lurk in every corner The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it may as well be paradise. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibilities, the creative spirit can flower, nurtured by the company of other artistic souls. Janet Belle Smith's husband doesn't understand why she can't write at home-or really, for that matter, why she...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Two sociologists infiltrate a cult that pulls them into madness in this "barbed and richly entertaining" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Wall Street Journal).
Once the nation's most popular sociologist, Tom McMann searches for a research subject that will invigorate his career. Unlike any study he's seen before, he targets the Truth Seekers, an up-and-coming cult that seeks flying saucers, utopian...
Once the nation's most popular sociologist, Tom McMann searches for a research subject that will invigorate his career. Unlike any study he's seen before, he targets the Truth Seekers, an up-and-coming cult that seeks flying saucers, utopian...
15) Fabulous beasts
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
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Describes the habits and characteristics of strange beasts and birds, including the unicorn, griffin, phoenix, and basilisk, once thought to live in wild and distant parts of the world.
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Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition,...