by Alison Lurie · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869301993
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«La Vérité sur Lorin Jones» is Alison Lurie's novel published by Rivages in paperback, with 384 pages, in French.
A young academic sets out to write the biography of Lorin Jones, a deceased painter, and during her research she discovers unexpected aspects of her life and work. These revelations confront her with her own beliefs and prejudices, and lead her to question the nature of truth.
Originally published in English as «The Truth About Lorin Jones» (1988), the novel won the Prix Femina Étranger in 1989; this French edition includes the translation by Sophie Mayoux.
For readers of literary fiction interested in feminist fiction and in the dilemmas of artistic creation.
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.
