Foreign Affairs
American novelist, 1926–2020. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985.
Foreign Affairs is a 1984 novel by Alison Lurie. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985.
On 2 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Alison Lurie
- First published
- 1984
- Length
- 320 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1984
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 1985
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Class and society, Love story, Migration and identity
Is Foreign Affairs worth reading?
2 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1984) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1985) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Foreign Affairs
The edition we link to is the Vintage Classics paperback (2020), 320 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics (paperback, 2020)
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781784876241
How critics, prizes and readers rate Foreign Affairs
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 83% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work