A superlative new novel by 'the greatest Canadian writer alive'

Psychologically acute

David Adams Richards' characters achieve redemption through affliction, but the reader does not feel afflicted

Lurie has written The Last Resort with all the style and penetrating wit that we have come to expect from this Pulitzer prize-winning author who often draws comparison with Jane Austen. The novel is a subtle comedy of manners which explores the gap between the things that people say in their social relationships, and what they really mean... Any reader looking for a message in this congenial, intelligent novel, can conclude that while age may not bring wisdom, it should restore the precious habit, lost in childhood, of living in and for the "bright, full present"

Sparely, exquisitely written...touching, funny, and exuberant

Alison Lurie's tragi-comedy of love and mortality is set in tropical Key West where anything goes, and ending up can mean starting again. This is entertainment of the very classiest kind

The world’s most enjoyable author

Perfect timing for these smart re-issues of Alison Lurie's novels, which I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational.

Fondly and delicately pieces back together what the deconstructors put asunder

Displaying a playful exuberance wonderfully at odds with the dry, jargon-strewn tradition of academic criticism, this deft, slender volume analyses how novelists pull rabbits out of hats