Foreign Affairs (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
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
- Principal Characters: Vinnie Miner, Fred Turner, Chuck Mumpson, Ruth (“Roo”) March, Lady Rosemary Radley, Edwin Francis, Lady Billings, Joe, Fido
- 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
Form and Content
Foreign Affairs has twelve chapters that alternate in their focus on first Vinnie’s adventures and then Fred’s. Although Vinnie Miner and Fred Turner know each other from the English Department at Corinth University in New York—she is an imposing senior professor, and he is a promising assistant professor hoping for tenure—they hardly have the grounds for a close relationship.
Vinnie Miner is an old visitor on the London scene, a self-admitted Anglophile who tries her best to snub Chuck Mumpson, an open, affable, retired engineer from...
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