The Jane Austen Book Club
$24.50
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2005
Summary
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners.
Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California’s Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141020266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141020261 |
| Author: | Karen Joy Fowler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 21mm |
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“Fowler has a voice like no other, lyrical, shrewd and addictive, with a quiet deadpan humor that underlies almost every sentence.”
About The Author
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is the Man Booker shortlisted, bestselling author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner Prize finalist and lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.
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