Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

earliest edition we have, 1984 Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 paperback 304 pages

Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. Also in London is...

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Editions we hold

Foreign Affairs paperback · 2006 · Random House Trade Paperbacks · 304 pages · 9780812976311
Foreign Affairs edition · 1999 · Econo-Clad Books · 9780785799535
Foreign Affairs paperback · 1994 · Minerva · 290 pages · 9780749397937
Foreign Affairs hardcover · 1990 · Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · 9780606218894
Foreign Affairs edition · 1990 · Avon Books · 291 pages · 9780380709908
Foreign affairs edition · 1986 · Abacus · 279 pages
Affären hardcover · 1986 · Diogenes · 442 pages
Foreign Affairs hardcover · 1984 · Random House · 291 pages
Foreign affairs edition · 1984 · Thorndike Press · 511 pages

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