Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, Aunt Fay makes Alice think - not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.
Fay Weldon was raised in a household of women in New Zealand and produced four sons of her own, as if to balance the gender count. After earning degrees in economics and psychology at the University of Edinburgh, she survived a decade of odd jobs and hard times, then began writing film and television scripts and fiction. Among her 18 novels and short-story collections are Trouble, Life Force, The Cloning of Joanna May, Darcy's Utopia, The Shrapnel Academy, The Life and Loves of a She-devil, Leader of the Band, Puffball, and The Heart of the Country, winner of the 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Fay Weldon lives in London and Somerset, England.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780800847432 |
| ISBN 10 | 0800847431 |
| Title | Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen |
| Author | Fay Weldon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taplinger Publishing Company |
| Year published | 1985-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 127 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |