Libros de Alison Lurie (2 libros)

En este ensayo, la novelista Alison Lurie pretende desentranar todo aquello que pregonan nuestras vestimentas y conformar con ello una tesis enormemente seductora: los cambios en las modas se producen, no al dictado de los disenadores, sino en respuesta a los mismos deseos y necesidades que afectan a los otros lenguajes. A partir de ahi, la autora examina ropas e indumentarias, y extrae de ellas informacion o desinformacion sobre gustos, profesiones, procedencias geograficas, personalidades, opiniones, deseos sexuales e incluso estados de animo. La conclusion es un libro que obligara a quien...

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would...