The Foreigners - Hardcover

Maxine Swann is the author of Serious Girls and Flower Children, for which she received the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also been awarded the Ploughshares' Cohen Award for best fiction of the year, an O. Henry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories of 1998 and 2006. Swann, who has also lived in Paris and Pakistan, has been living in Buenos Aires since 2001.

"Beautifully written, sensual and seductive."
-"Kirkus"

"Atmospheric, evocative literary fiction that ruminates on what it means and how it feels to be foreign."
-"Booklist"

"Beautifully written, sensual and seductive."
-"Kirkus"

"Swann, an American who has lived in Buenos Aires for the past decade, vividly evokes the city and its lively, diverse, and conflicted social landscape, from the denizens of posh hotels to the unfortunate poor living in the city's slums. . . . Seductively hard to put down."--"The Boston Globe

""The three women in Maxine Swann's The Foreigners hope to leave their worries behind by plunging into the wild glamour of Buenos Aires, but find even greater surprises when the stumble into the recesses of their own lives."--"W
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"Post-crash Buenos Aires is the nourish setting of Maxine Swann's "The Foreigners", in which an untethered American divorcee dabbles in increasingly risky funny games with the help of a local provocateuse."--"Vogue
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"The city of Buenos Aires dazzles in this novel about three women who find sex, adventure, and more sex in the Paris of South America."--"O, The Oprah Magazine

""Atmospheric, evocative literary fiction that ruminates on what it means and how it feels to be foreign."--"Booklist
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"Whether native or foreigner, each character is displaced and wrestles with the outcome. With lyricism and observational skill that recalls early Joan Didion, Swann brings Buenos Aires to life."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred)

"Beautifully written, sensual and seductive."--"Kirkus"