by Alison Lurie · Abacus (Little, Brown) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349122144
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«The War Between the Tates» is Alison Lurie's humorous novel set in academia, published by Abacus (Little, Brown) in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Set in the American academic world, the novel follows a professor whose stable relationship and family life crumble when he embarks on a reckless affair with a student. Through humor, it portrays the contradictions of the university environment and the consequences of his decisions.
The work was originally published in 1974; this Abacus edition is a 1987 reprint.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy humorous portraits of academia and relationships.
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.
