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.
100
Hardbound
Very Good Condition
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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