The Extraordinary "New York Times" Bestseller
In Californiaas central valley, five women and one man join to
discuss Jane Austenas novels. Over the six months they get
together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable
arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for
the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of
social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her
characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of
modern relationships.
Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of
Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply
enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of
separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social
comedy.
aThis exquisite novel is bigger and more ambitious than it
appearsa] Fowleras shrewdest, funniest fiction yet, a novel about
how we engage with a novel. You donat have to be a student of Jane
Austen to enjoy it, either. . . Lovers of Austen will relish this
book, but I envy any reader who comes to it unfamiliar with her.
Thereas no better introduction.a
aPatrick T. OaConnor, "The New York Times Book Review"
aKaren Joy Fowler creates a novel that is so winning, so touching,
so delicately, slyly witty that admirers of Persuasion and Emma
will simply sigh with happiness.a
aMichael Dirda, "The Washington Post Book World"
aStart quoting a few of Fowleras puckish lines and it becomes
damnably difficult to stop. . . "The Jane Austen Book Club" amounts
to a witty meditation on how the books we choose, choose us
too.a
aDavid Kipen, "San Francisco Chronicle"
a"The Jane Austen Book Club" offers a sparkling rumination on the
act of reading itself and how beloved books can serve as refuge,
self-definition, snobbish barricades against other people or
pathways out of the old self to a wider world. [It is] a terrific
comic novel about a closed society merrily transforming itself by
reading.a
aMaureen Corrigan, NPRas "All Things Considered"
[Fowler] does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life
that Austenas work falls away like a husk. Itas an impressive feat
of homage, since Fowler essentially borrows Austenas great
themesa]and makes them her own. Miss Austen would be proud.a
aJohn Freeman, "The Denver Post"
General
Imprint: |
G P Putnam's Sons
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2005 |
First published: |
April 2005 |
Authors: |
Karen Joy Fowler
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Dimensions: |
202 x 133 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-452-28653-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-452-28653-0 |
Barcode: |
9780452286535 |
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