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Alison lurie is currently considered a single author. Foreign affairs follows two professors of english literature at an ivy league college on study leave in london. The course of these two relationships makes up the story of foreign affairsa finalist for the national book award and national book critics circle award as well as a pulitzer prize winner. Foreign affairs is a 1984 novel by american writer alison lurie, which concerns itself with american academics in england.
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