The Jane Austen Book Club
- ISBN-10
- 0452286530
- ISBN-13
- 9780452286535
- Series
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Karen Joy Fowler
Description
As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners. By the author of Sarah Canary. Reprint.
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