Reviews
"What strikes one first is the voice: robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected." - Margot Livesey,The New York Times Book Review "A luxuriant pleasure!" - Alice Sebold "Part character study, part social commentary, part literary puzzle, Book Club builds on Fowler's success as an author of highly creative fiction." - The New York Times Book Review "Karen Joy Fowler creates a novel that is so winning, so touching, so delicately, slyly witty that admirers of Persuasion and Emma will simply sigh with happiness." - Michael Dirda , The Washington Post Book World "Start quoting a few of Fowler's puckish lines and it becomes damnably difficult to stop. . . The Jane Austen Book Club amounts to a witty meditation on how the books we choose, choose us too." - San Francisco Chronicle " The Jane Austen Book Club offers a sparkling rumination on the act of reading itself and how beloved books can serve as refuge, self-definition, snobbish barricades against other people or pathways out of the old self to a wider world. [It is] a terrific comic novel about a closed society merrily transforming itself by reading." - Maureen Corrigan , NPR's All Things Considered "[Fowler] does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life that Austen's work falls away like a husk. It's an impressive feat of homage, since Fowler essentially borrows Austen's great themes…and makes them her own. Miss Austen would be proud." - The Denver Post, "What strikes one first is the voice: robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected." -- Margot Livesey,The New York Times Book Review "A luxuriant pleasure!" -- Alice Sebold "Part character study, part social commentary, part literary puzzle, Book Club builds on Fowler's success as an author of highly creative fiction." -- The New York Times Book Review "Karen Joy Fowler creates a novel that is so winning, so touching, so delicately, slyly witty that admirers of Persuasion and Emma will simply sigh with happiness." -- Michael Dirda , The Washington Post Book World "Start quoting a few of Fowler's puckish lines and it becomes damnably difficult to stop. . . The Jane Austen Book Club amounts to a witty meditation on how the books we choose, choose us too." -- San Francisco Chronicle " The Jane Austen Book Club offers a sparkling rumination on the act of reading itself and how beloved books can serve as refuge, self-definition, snobbish barricades against other people or pathways out of the old self to a wider world. [It is] a terrific comic novel about a closed society merrily transforming itself by reading." -- Maureen Corrigan , NPR's All Things Considered "[Fowler] does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life that Austen's work falls away like a husk. It's an impressive feat of homage, since Fowler essentially borrows Austen's great themes…and makes them her own. Miss Austen would be proud." -- The Denver Post
