Alison Lurie

Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes....

In the midst of the Great Depression, two families spend a holiday weekend together--but while their daughters cement their friendship, their parents tear their marriages apart....

A young couple from New England's Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles....

When a wife reaches her breaking point, and her husband begins an ill-advised affair, civil war breaks out within their family....

The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story....

At an artistic Garden of Eden, one writer finds that serpents lurk in every corner....

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair....

At the end of his tether, a writer travels to Key West with his wife. She's hoping to cheer him up, but he's hoping for something more fatal....

Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant, Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding it will make excellent study material....

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author dishes up a surprising satire about two couples making mischief on a college campus. Unabridged CDs - 7 CDs, 9...