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"In California's Central Valley, five women and one man join together to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens."
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Classical in form, intimate, warm and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Joy Fowler
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult, Plume, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780452286535
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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.”
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