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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Some
Moderate adult language with literary wit
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual content is closed-door
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in London and academic settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological complexity of middle-aged love — the surprise of it, the resistance, the late happiness — is the novel's finest achievement
What this book is about
Two American academics spend a year in London — one a professor who finds unexpected love, one a younger man whose British romance doesn't go as planned. Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novel is wry, intelligent, and very funny about the British-American cultural divide.
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