Instead, she creates characters whose eerie situations seem barely a step beyond our own lives. Delphinium (HarperCollins, dist.), 24. Lurie, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Foreign Affairs' and seven other novels, teaches courses in folklore and children's literature at Cornell University and edited 'The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales.' She knows that an effective tale of the supernatural need not rely on gore or broadly drawn malevolent spirits. The nine tales in 'Women and Ghosts' are told in a playful, chatty manner, but this is more than a volume of ghost stories lite. Her dead fiance keeps appearing to her during intimate moments with other men, and he will not be silenced: 'That's a filthy person you're with. Ilses house - The pool people - The highboy - Counting sheep - In the shadow - Waiting for the baby - Fat people - Another.

Celia, the protagonist of 'In the Shadow,' must deal with a more temperamental ghost. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is a story of romance and.

Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others.

And then there is Ellie, the main character of 'Fat People.' The young secretary, who is struggling with a diet plan, begins to see obese people at every turn-and darned if one of them isn't pointing to a tray of strawberry tarts at the town bakery. and latest work of fiction by Alison Lurie, who teaches English at Cornell University and has quietly but surely. Paul, when he takes up with Ceci, becomes a ridiculous figurea mature, well-educated man who dresses in paint-splattered chino pants, sweatshirt, and sandals, grows a beard, and hangs around. 1926) is a Pulitzer Prizewinning author of fiction and nonfiction.

The Highboy by Alison Lurie