Foreign Affairs | Critical Overview
Reviewers were quick to praise Foreign Affairs. The general opinion was that it was Lurie's best novel up to that time. In Newsweek, Walter Clemons calls it "ingenious" and "touching" and praises Lurie's skill in characterization: "Vinnie is an entirely successful creation, Chuck almost as good." Clemons had some trouble believing what eventually happens to Rosemary and had a few other quibbles, but he acknowledges that "Vinnie Miner is granted a moving acknowledgement of love."
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