Truth and Consequences: A Novel

Authors: Lurie, Alison
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC025000, FIC052000
ISBN: 9781440627347, Related ISBNs: 0143038036, 0143058185, 0670034398, 0786564768, 1101194243
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Over the years, Alison Lurie has earned a devoted readership for her satiric wit and storytelling acumen. With Truth and Consequences, described by the New Yorker as "a comedy of adultery with a comedy of academia thrown in," Lurie returns with a modern social satire that recalls the best of David Lodge and Mary McCarthy as well as her own popular university novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs. BACKCOVER: "A wily, shapely tale of love's labors lost."
-Elle

"A wry, insightful, thoroughly enjoyable tale about how men and women choose their demons and their lovers, and the sacrifices they're willing to make for both."
-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Delightful . . . Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect."
-The New York Review of Books
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