The Jane Austen Book Club
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The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit (The Boston Globe). In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy 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.Karen Haber is the author of eight books, including Star Trek: Voyager - Bless the Beasts; writer of Science of the X-Men; and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hugo-nominated essay anthology. Mediations on Middle-earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and a number of anthologies. She writes book reviews for Locus magazine and profiles artists for publications such as Realms of Fantasy. Haber and her husband, Robert Silverberg, live in Oakland, California.
Robert Zohrab is a digital artist and designer from Australia whose work has been featured on book covers and corporate brochures. Among his clients are the Manta recording business, for which he designed album covers and advertising material, and ibooks, inc., for whom he provided cover images for new trade editions of Brian Aldiss's landmark Helliconia trilogy, among others. Darrel Anderson, a digital-art pioneer, rose from the underground comix scene to found braid.com, one of the first and most popular art Web sites. He worked on the animated CGI conclusion of the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic with members of the BRAID collective and PCA Graphics.
A total of 48 of his images may be found on the Science Fiction Channel's website, and he is featured in Dick Jude's Fantasy Art of the New Millennium II. His work has won top prizes in a number of worldwide competitions, including Pixar's call for images and MacWorld's Macintosh Masters. Anderson is a programmer and an artist who works on both sides of the screen. GroBoto, one of his most recent creations, is an interactive art tool that allows children to explore their creativity while also allowing artists to further theirs.
Braid.com is where you can see and try out Anderson's work.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780399151613 |
| ISBN 10 | 0399151613 |
| Title | The Jane Austen Book Club |
| Author | Karen Joy Fowler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Marian Wood Book |
| Year published | 2004-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction) 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |