The Jane Austen Book ClubThe Jane Austen Book Club
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Book, 2004
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"In California's Central Valley, five women and one man join together to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier, or her characters more appealing, while the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Dedicated Austen readers will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through this novel, but many readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of sublime social comedy. This is the novel that Jane Austen might indeed have written had she lived in twenty-first century California"--Front Flap. Includes a "Reader's Guide" with a brief description and summary of Jane Austen's novels; "The Response" "in which Jane Austen's family and friends comment on Mansfield Park, opinions collected and recorded by Austen herself;" "In which Jane Austen's family and friends comment on Emma;" "In which critics, writers, and literary figures comment on Austen, her novels, her admirers, and her detractors through two centuries;" notes, and "Questions for discussion."
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