Imaginary Friends (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Alison Lurie
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Cults, Colleges or universities, Sociology, Belief or doubt
Imaginary Friends is unlike Lurie's other novels in that marriage, adultery, and the continuing war between the sexes, Lurie's most common themes, give way to other concerns. She does, however, continue to explore academic lives—in this case, an older sociology professor, Thomas McMann, and his younger colleague, Roger Zimmern—and she once again juxtaposes two kinds of culture; the simple, lower-middle-class Truth Seekers with the intellectual, well-bred, and sophisticated sociologists who come to study them. Lurie demonstrates that the rational beliefs and pretensions of...
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