by Alison Lurie · Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869303553
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«Conflits de famille» is Alison Lurie's satirical novel, published by Rivages in paperback (325 pages, in French).
In an American university town during the Vietnam War, Brian, a rigid intellectual, clashes with his children while his wife Erica suspects he is having an affair with a student. Infidelity, generational conflicts and a longing for independence mix in a comedy about domestic life.
Novel translated from English; French edition by Rivages published in 1990.
For readers of French fiction interested in social satire and family portraits.
Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.
