A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and astute cultural commentator explores works by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, and Dr. Seuss and suggests that most beloved children's texts challenge rather than uphold many adult values. Reprint.[...]
Once the Tates were an attractive family, but now Erica is bored, Brian's career is at a standstill, and the children have become revolting teenagers. Then Erica discovers that her husband is carrying on with one of his students. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Foreign Affairs".[...]
A Pulitzer Prize-winning story which is both a comedy and a poignant love story about two American academics in London. The separate paths of these two lonely and naive innocents abroad lead them to strikingly similar destinations of new-found passion, and unexpected love.[...]