A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel
Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in
twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever
moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and
in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never
been so devious or so much fun.
Six Californians
join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months
they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable
arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her
finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and
her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social
intercourse, 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.
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