A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first-century California.
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 an eye for the frailties of human behavior and an 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.
OK, call me an idiot. I didn't realize the movie was based off of a book.
I absolutely plan to read this now!!
Another to add to my growing Austen list!
