Truth and Consequences: A Novel
Written by Alison Lurie
Narrated by Jamie Heinlein
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Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie (1926–2020) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is a story of romance and deception among the faculty of a snowbound New England college. It won favorable reviews and established her as a keen observer of love in academia. It was followed by the well-received The Nowhere City (1966) and The War Between the Tates (1974). In 1984, she published Foreign Affairs, her best-known novel, which traces the erotic entanglements of two American professors in England. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. Her most recent novel is The Last Resort (1998). In addition to her novels, Lurie’s interest in children’s literature led to three collections of folk tales and two critical studies of the genre. Lurie officially retired from Cornell in 1998, but continued to teach and write in the years following. In 2012, she was awarded a two-year term as the official author of the state of New York.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alan, made grumpy by his bad back is making it difficult for his wife Jane to be 'good', and their marriage is further threatened when the grotesquely self-centred Delia takes up a celebrity position at the University.Lurie understands humans, their pettiness and secret feelings, and the annoyance of unreliable photo-copiers. Funny, entertaining, with great dialogue and well-drawn characters. Must read more of her.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book could have been so much better. The women characters in it were so whiny! Sniveling, waiting for the knight in white kinda women and I absolutely hate the perception that we are all that way.
The one redeeming quality I enjoyed in this book was her use of alliteration. She absolutely caught the connection between back trauma and the evil lizard living in the main male characters back. Having had my share of back pain I could really relate. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A horrible book. I couldn't and didn't want to relate to the main characters who are a whiny, pathetic group of boring middle aged married couples. I kept waiting for the ending, hoping that something, ANYTHING, would happen to make me change my mind but alas, no. In short, I wouldn't recommend.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A guy with a bad back and his wife's efforts to deal with him and the visiting (at their college) diva-writer he becomes infatuated with. Good, but a little light.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very common theme, but as usual Lurie builds her characters so subtly and layers the situation so carefully that it is a really good read.