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Rude Awakenings Of A Jane Austen Addict:
Laurie Viera Rigler
Plume
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0452296161
EAN: 9780452296169
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Fiction | Jane Austen
The eagerly anticipated sequel to Confessions of a Jane
Austen Addict Laurie Viera Rigler's debut novel,
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, was a hit with
fans and critics, and a BookSense and Los Angeles
Times bestseller. Its open-to-interpretation ending left
readers begging for more-and Rude Awakenings of a Jane
Austen Addict delivers. While Confessions took
twenty-first-century free spirit Courtney Stone into the
social confines of Jane Austen's era, Rude Awakenings tells
the parallel story of Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter
from Regency England who inexplicably awakens in Courtney's
overly wired and morally confused L.A. life. For Jane,
the modern world is not wholly disagreeable. Her apartment
may be smaller than a dressing closet, but it is fitted up
with lights that burn without candles, machines that wash
bodies and clothes, and a glossy rectangle in which tiny
people perform scenes from her favorite book, Pride and
Prejudice. Granted, if she wants to travel she may have
to drive a formidable metal carriage, but she may do so
without a chaperone. And oh, what places she goes! Public
assemblies that pulsate with pounding music. Unbound hair
and unrestricted clothing. The freedom to say what she wants
when she wants-even to men without a proper
introduction. Jane relishes the privacy, independence,
even the power to earn her own money. But how is she to
fathom her employer's incomprehensible dictates about
"syncing a BlackBerry" and "rolling a call"?
How can she navigate a world in which entire publications
are devoted to brides but flirting and kissing and even the
sexual act itself raise no matrimonial expectations? Even
more bewildering are the memories that are not her own. And
the friend named Wes, who is as attractive and confusing to
Jane as the man who broke her heart back home. It's enough
to make her wonder if she would be better off in her own
time, where at least the rules are clear-that is, if
returning is even an option.
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