The Jane Austen Book Club - Softcover

Fowler, Karen Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452286530 ISBN 13: 9780452286535

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

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Book by Fowler Karen Joy

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Praise for The Jane Austen Book Club

"Ms. Fowler, an original and unexpectedly voiced novelist, takes her own place among the shining responders. Not just with comments of her own, though there are some excellent ones, but with the entire playful structure of her new novel."--Richard Eder, The New York Times

"If I could eat this nove, I would...A luxuriant pleasure!"--Alice Sebold

"It's natural to approach a novel titled The Jane Austen Book Club with caution, but Karen Joy Fowler's funny, erudite nvoel proved to be a surprise and a delight, a tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit."--The Boston Globe

"Karen 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."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

"Start quoting a few of Fowler's 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."--San Francisco Chronicle

"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."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's All Things Considered

"[Fowler] does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life that Austen's work falls away like a husk. It's an impressive feat of homage, since Fowler essentially borrowsAusten's great themes...and makes them her own. Miss Austen would be proud."--The Denver Post

Reseña del editor

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners. By the author of Sarah Canary. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0452286530
• ISBN 13: 9780452286535
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304