The Last Resort

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
'Lurie has written The Last Resort with all the style and penetrating wit that we have come to expect from this Pulitzer prize-winning author who often draws comparisons with Jane Austen. The novel is a subtle comedy of manners which explores the gap between the things that people say in their social relationships, and what they really mean Any reader looking for a message in this congenial, intelligent novel, can conclude that while age may not bring wisdom, it should restore the precious habit, lost in j childhood, of living in and for the "bright, fxxll present"* Natasha Fairweather, Observer
Alison Lurie s tragi-comedy of love and mortality is set in tropical Key West, where anything goes, and ending up can mean starting again. This is entertainment of the very classiest kind' Victoria GlchtJinning
'The Last Resort, like aM of Lurie s novels, concerns men and women looking for the perfect partner ,If thetes one thing Lurie does brilliantly, it... Tovább

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
'Lurie has written The Last Resort with all the style and penetrating wit that we have come to expect from this Pulitzer prize-winning author who often draws comparisons with Jane Austen. The novel is a subtle comedy of manners which explores the gap between the things that people say in their social relationships, and what they really mean Any reader looking for a message in this congenial, intelligent novel, can conclude that while age may not bring wisdom, it should restore the precious habit, lost in j childhood, of living in and for the "bright, fxxll present"* Natasha Fairweather, Observer
Alison Lurie s tragi-comedy of love and mortality is set in tropical Key West, where anything goes, and ending up can mean starting again. This is entertainment of the very classiest kind' Victoria GlchtJinning
'The Last Resort, like aM of Lurie s novels, concerns men and women looking for the perfect partner ,If thetes one thing Lurie does brilliantly, it is to describe the swift shifts that occur in emotional temperature whenever passion s |||ohcd 'as funny, wicked and smart as anything she has ever written Scott Bradfield, Mail on Sunday
'The Last Resort retains all [Lurie s] compulsive readability. lts prose is ?risp with astringent acumen and witty alertness Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
Br^Sparely, exquisitely written touching, funny, and exuberant Sue Gaisfo^ Harpm & Queen
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