The Jane Austen Book Club
Published on 27. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-14-102026-6 (ISBN)
Description
A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler.
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...
'If I could eat this novel, I would' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
'A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' Entertainment Weekly
'We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail On Sunday
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...
'If I could eat this novel, I would' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
'A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' Entertainment Weekly
'We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail On Sunday
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-102026-6 (9780141020266)
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Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
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Previous edition
Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club
Book
11/2007
Penguin Books Ltd
€29.89
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Person
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 a PEN/Faulkner Prize finalist and lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.