- Gebundene Ausgabe: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam (26. April 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0399151613
- ISBN-13: 978-0399151613
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 14,7 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 864.709 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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*Starred Review* Fowler, a captivating and good-hearted satirist, exuberantly pays homage to and matches wits with Jane Austen in her most pleasurable novel to date by portraying six irresistible Californians who meet once a month to discuss Austen's six novels. Coyly shifting points of view, Fowler subtly uses her characters' responses to Austen as entree into their poignant and often hilarious life stories. The book club is Jocelyn's idea, a fiftysomething gal who seems to prefer the company of her show dogs to men. She has known Sylvia since grade school, and even used to date Sylvia's husband, who has abruptly moved out, inspiring their beautiful, accident-prone, lesbian artist daughter, Allegra, to move back in and join the book club along with her mother. Also on board are disheveled and loquacious Bernadette; Prudie, a high-school French teacher; and Grigg, the only man. Fowler shares Austen's fascination with the power of stories, and explores the same timeless aspects of human behavior that Austen so masterfully dramatizes, while capturing with anthropological acuity and electrifying humor the oddities of our harried world. Fellow Austenites will love Fowler's fluency in the great novelist's work; every reader will relish Fowler's own ebullient comedy of manners, and who knows how many book clubs will be inspired by this charming paean to books and readers. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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What strikes one first is the voice: robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected. (Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review)
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We sat in a circle on Jocelyn's screened porch at dusk, drinking cold sun tea, surrounded by the smell of her twelve acres of fresh-mowed California grass. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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Jocelyn sets up the Jane Austen Book Club to distract her best friend Sylvia from her husband's desertion. 3 more women and 1 man make up the club. Each time they meet to discuss one of Austen's books you also get an inside into the life of the host's life.
While this is certainly an enjoyable read and had me smiling several times at the beginning, I was left feeling that the potential of the set up had not fully been realized. I'd rather have seen a bit more work gone into the life chameos or in the book discussions than have the collection of Austen critic at the end of the book. Nonetheless it has made me want to pick up my Austen books and reread them with a view of the points made by the book's characters.
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"The Jane Austen Book Club" started out great, but turned out to be nothing special. It was an good read, but I had expected a lot more. I wasn't disappointed because this book is most definitely *not* about Jane Austen's novels, but disappointed because this book is simply not unique.
Like Jane Austen published six novels, "The Jane Austen Book Club" has six members (Jocelyn, Sylvia, Allegra, Grigg, Bernadette and Prudie). While they meet monthly at one of the member's places to discuss Austen's novels, their lives are reflected. This book has six chapters, in each chapter there are tidbits of Austen hidden in between the character studies/bios of one of the club members.
"The Jane Austen Book Club" is a nice read: the characters are nicely drawn and the setting is quite charming, but I kept wondering which point I must have missed, to make this book special. I still don't know what it is ;-(. And there is another matter that still irks me: the story is told by a first-person-narrator. You never get to know who of the six members of the book club is the narrator and that spoiled the fun quite a bit for me. Hence only an average read ;-(.
Result: Give it a try, although I am still a bit ambivalent about it ;-)
Like Jane Austen published six novels, "The Jane Austen Book Club" has six members (Jocelyn, Sylvia, Allegra, Grigg, Bernadette and Prudie). While they meet monthly at one of the member's places to discuss Austen's novels, their lives are reflected. This book has six chapters, in each chapter there are tidbits of Austen hidden in between the character studies/bios of one of the club members.
"The Jane Austen Book Club" is a nice read: the characters are nicely drawn and the setting is quite charming, but I kept wondering which point I must have missed, to make this book special. I still don't know what it is ;-(. And there is another matter that still irks me: the story is told by a first-person-narrator. You never get to know who of the six members of the book club is the narrator and that spoiled the fun quite a bit for me. Hence only an average read ;-(.
Result: Give it a try, although I am still a bit ambivalent about it ;-)
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a very charming novel to read, with a cast of interesting, if quirky characters, and it makes you want to read one of six Austen novels again. It takes place in California which is far removed from Austen-country, but it just goes to show that human nature doesn't change much over distance or time. The book does stand by itself since these novels are jut a starting point for Fowler's novel. I did enjoy reading it and do recommend it though is is no match for the real master.
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Etwa einmal im Monat tagt im sonnigen Kalifornien der "Jane Austen Book Club" und bespricht eines ihrer Werke. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. September 2007 von Geisha X
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This book deserves five stars for its sincere attempt to honor Jane Austen's writing. At the same time, it deserves three stars for the effectiveness of its story and style. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Dezember 2004 von Donald Mitchell
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