by Alison Lurie · tapa dura · ISBN 9780805058666
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«The Last Resort» is the novel by Alison Lurie, published by Henry Holt and Company in hardcover (336 pages, in English).
Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the nature writer Wilkie Walker, much older than her. When he falls into depression, she convinces him to spend the winter in Key West. There she finds work and connects with local characters, while Wilkie plans his own accidental death. The novel combines comedy and social commentary.
First edition, published in New York in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate ironic humor and stories set in Florida.
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.
