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'Jane Austen' infused with a sexual awakening
From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20040711
Author:Heidi Vogt THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It has been said that a writer who imitates a great author is more likely to gain renown as a great mimic than as a great writer.
However, in The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler manages to imitate, mimic and parody the 19th-century author of Pride and Prejudice while creating an insightful profile of 21st-century society that's all her own.
"Each of us has a private Austen," Fowler writes, setting up a voyage deep into the private lives of her characters to show how six different people can read the same books and come out on the other end knowing six different Jane Austens.
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