The War Between the Tates (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alison Lurie
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1970’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Marriage, Pregnancy, Adultery, Generation gap, Hippies, Hostages or hostage taking
- Locales: New York, NY
The War Between the Tates, Lurie's best-known novel, is a wickedly humorous satire on marriage, infidelity, and American society. Lurie sets her narrative during the time of the Vietnam War, and early in the novel she develops an extended comparison between that disastrous American conflict and the typically American Tate marriage.
Brian and Erica Tate, like the South Vietnamese, find that their territory (an upper-middle-class house on Jones Creek Road, near Corinth University) is being taken over. The Tates liken their teenage children, Jeffrey and Matilda, to North...
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