WAR BETWEEN THE TATES

by Alison Lurie | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0394462017 Global Overview for this book
Registered by amyem of Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on 9/9/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by amyem from Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Someone suggested Alison Lurie to me but now I'm not sure why. It was very hard to enjoy the book when I intensely disliked all the characters. The Tates are Brian, a political science professor and Erica, his stay at home wife. They live in thinly veiled Ithaca where Brian teaches at Cornell. (She can call is Corinth all she likes, I think it was the gorges that were the final tip off.) Brian is a pompous twit and Erica likes to nobly suffer while helping others despite themselves. Their two teenage children are ill-mannered louts. Brian eventually succumbs to a grad student, Wendy, who throws herself at his feet and Erica becomes convinced that Brian must divorce her and marry wet little Wendy. Unfortunately, this is only the first third of the book. It gets worse.

Journal Entry 2 by amyem at Trident Booksellers, Newbury St., Back Bay in Boston, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Released on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 at Back Bay - Newbury Street - Trident Booksellers in Boston, Massachusetts USA.

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