
The Jane Austen Book Club
(2004)A novel by
Karen Joy Fowler
AwardsThe Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
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.
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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Hardback Editions
October 2004 : Hardback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-670-91558-0 / 978-0-670-91558-3 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2004 : Hardback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-7862-6587-6 / 978-0-7862-6587-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 2004 : Hardback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-7862-7316-X / 978-0-7862-7316-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2004 : Hardback
| Title: Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Fowler ISBN: 0-399-15161-3 / 978-0-399-15161-3 (USA edition) Publisher: GP Putnam And Sons Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-14-103430-0 / 978-0-14-103430-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Jane Austen Book Club Movie Tie In Author(s): Karen Fowler ISBN: 0-452-28900-9 / 978-0-452-28900-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Plume Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-452-28653-0 / 978-0-452-28653-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Plume Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-14-102027-X / 978-0-14-102027-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-14-102026-1 / 978-0-14-102026-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd., London Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Jane Austen Book Club, The Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-670-91582-3 / 978-0-670-91582-8 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2004 : Paperback
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-670-91559-9 / 978-0-670-91559-0 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
October 2005 : Audio CD
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0-14-180644-3 / 978-0-14-180644-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
July 2009 : Unknown
| Title: The Jane Austen Book Club [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 1-61545-583-3 / 9781615455836 (USA edition) Publisher: Playaway Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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