Foreign Affairs (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alison Lurie
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Social life, 1980’s, England or English people, Adultery, Wit or humor, London, Learning or scholarship, Parties
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Vinnie Miner, a fifty-four-year-old unmarried professor who specializes in children’s literature at Corinth University in New York. Vinnie is an Anglophile and is in London to study the rhymes of schoolchildren. She meets another American, Chuck Mumpson, whom she at first snubs but whose kindness eventually inspires in her a more generous view of men and of transatlantic cultural values.
Fred Turner, Vinnie’s colleague in the Corinth English Department. He also is studying in London. Fred is separated from his wife, Roo, and is struggling with...
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