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âThis is 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the originalâPride and PrejudiceSTYLIST
GLAMOURâBold and brilliantâ
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Liz and Jane Bennetare good daughters. Theyâve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development.
Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status â and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas familyâs BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .
In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth.Pride and Prejudice__________________________________________________
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ElleâIf there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find itâ
Judy BlumeâThese days, if Curtis Sittenfeld writes it, I read itâ
Redâ has all the charm, wit and romance of âŠan absolute delightâEligiblePride & Prejudice
Woman and HomeâDazzlingâ
Nigella LawsonâSuch a feast of a bookâ
New York TimesâNot since âClueless,â has Austen been so delightedly interpretedâ
Matilda
2023-10-14
It is hard to write a retelling of any of Jane Austen's works. In my opinion, Pride and Prejudice is one of the greatest books of all time, but in Sittenfeld's version the original witty, elegant and smart storyline becomes another shallow romantic chic-lit. And while I understand that the plot had to be adapted to the modern mid-Western setting the author has placed it in, the reshuffling of characters and events makes the thoughtfully constructed twist and turns unravel to the extent that the book looses its deeper meaning completely. At times entertaining, but I think placing the Bennet family in a reality series, making Jane a yoga instructor and Kitty and Lydia hardcore crossfit fans, and adding sperm donors and secret pregnancies to the mix was simply too much for me. [2.5 â]