by Alison Lurie · Michael Joseph · tapa dura · ISBN 9780718130954
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«The Truth About Lorin Jones» is Alison Lurie's novel, published in 1988 by Michael Joseph in hardcover (328 pages, in English).
Polly Alter, a recently divorced art historian, investigates the life of Lorin Jones, an American painter, to write her biography. Among archives and interviews, Polly uncovers uncomfortable truths about the artist and about herself; the novel explores identity, feminism, and the New York art world.
The novel, published on July 7, 1988, was awarded the Prix Femina 1989.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the art world, biography writing, and gender issues.
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.
