by Alison Lurie · RIVAGES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869304123
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«La Vérité sur Lorin Jones» is the novel by Alison Lurie published by Rivages in paperback (405 pages, in French).
Polly Alter, a New York art historian, investigates the disappearance of the painter Lorin Jones in 1969 and the neglect of her work. Convinced that male chauvinism harmed her, Polly mixes prejudice and biography; her interviews bring surprises. It combines detective narrative, biographical parody and postfeminist reflection.
It won the Prix Femina Étranger in 1989. Translation by Sophie Mayoux, in the Rivages poche/Bibliothèque étrangère collection. The original work is The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988).
For readers of literary fiction, feminist fiction and novels about the art world.
Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.
