Desert Island Discs - Alison Lurie

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Alison Lurie is not only a part-time professor of English at Cornell University where she teaches creative writing and children's literature, but she is also a very successful novelist. "Her seven novels", writes Malcolm Bradbury, "collectively form a biting record of American social, moral and sexual mores from the early 1960s to the present." In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her work and she chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro - Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Telephone

Published on Saturday, 9th March 1985.

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