![]() ![]() ![]() 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. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. ![]() 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. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. 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. Jocelyns Austen wrote wonderful novels about love and courtship, but never married. A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California. ![]()
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