by Alison Lurie · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749397869
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«Imaginary Friends» is the novel by Alison Lurie, published by Vintage in paperback (277 pages, in English).
Roger and Tom McMann, a sociology professor, infiltrate the Truth Seekers, a cult mixing spiritualism, science fiction and the wait for an extraterrestrial messiah. Ro, from the planet Varna, communicates through Venea, a young psychic. The investigation falls apart when both lose logic and sanity.
'New Ed' edition published in 1999; the novel originally appeared in 1967, within modern and contemporary fiction.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate a sociological satire on sects, credulity and loss of reason.
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.
