The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler Audiobook

Written by Karen Joy Fowler
Read by Kimberly Schraf
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Awards:: Listen Up Award
Release date: September 3, 2004
Duration: 08:02:48

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…

Reviewers say - Though the 21 pages of quotations from Austen’s family, friends and critics seems excessive, the novelty of Fowler’s package should attract significant numbers of book club members, not to mention the legions of Janeites craving good company and happy endings.

Through subtle alterations of tone and inflection, Kimberly Schraf neatly conveys the emotions and idiosyncrasies of each character, from Prudie’s impossibly pretentious French asides to Bernadette’s airy, endless storytelling. Playful and intelligent, this audiobook embodies the best of both the written and aural worlds