The Jane Austen Book Club
2 journalers for this copy...
Product Description:
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun.
Six Californians join 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, 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.
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun.
Six Californians join 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, 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.
This was March 2005 book selection for my local bookclub. I personally didn't care for it. I hated the voice of the collective "we" who narrated! I felt none of the characters were developed enough and the book rambled to a stop.......
Hope someone else likes it as I have plans for it!
Hope someone else likes it as I have plans for it!
mailing off via relay YBS #3
Received in the mail yesterday as part of YBS #3 over on the bookrelay.com forums.
I totally forgot that I signed up for a bookring for the unabridged Audio of this one. Since the audio version is headed to me next, I'm going to move this to my AVL shelf so I can pass it along for someone else to enjoy.
Sending off to Duluth, GA via PaperbackSwap.com
