The Jane Austen Book Club [Paperback]

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A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming “tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit” (The Boston Globe).

In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy 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.Praise forThe 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 titledThe Jane Austen Book Clubwith 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 ofPersuasionandEmmawill simply sigh with happiness.”—Michael Dirda,The Washington Post Book World

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