Book description
Alan Mackenzie's bad back is ruining both his and his wife Jane's
lives. After years of happy marriage, these two attractive and
intelligent people have stopped making love and are starting to resent
each other. However, the arrival of a new couple in town - the
beautiful and egoistic writer Delia and her cynical husband Henry -
heralds a period of dramatic change for the Mackenzies.
Truth and Consequences is a comedy about love and its
disguises, and identity and change - about the small disasters and
sudden attractions that can turn even the most stable relationship
upside down.
Alison Lurie is the author of ten novels, including Foreign
Affairs (Pulitzer Prize, 1985), The Truth About Lorin Jones
(Prix Femina Etranger, 1989), and The Last Resort. Ms Lurie has
also published Women and Ghosts, a collection of supernatural
stories; Familiar Spirits, a memoir of the poet James Merrill;
and The Language of Clothes, a study of the psychology of
fashion. She has written two collections of essays on children's
literature, Tell the Grown-ups and Boys and Girls
Forever, and three books of traditional folktales for children.
Three of Alison Lurie's novels - Foreign Affairs, The War Between
the Tates and Imaginary Friends - have been adapted for
television. She has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation
grants, and the Amercian Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction.
Alison Lurie was until recently the Frederic J. Whiton Porfessor of
American Literature at Cornell University. She is now retired and she
spends part of the summer in London and most of the winter in Key
West, Florida.
