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The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she ...Show more
The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
'Everyone turns out to be a writer', Addison said. 'Why? Why must everyone write? Why can't they just read?' Rima Lanisell is a young woman at a loose end, following the death of her father. Rima has a history of losing things: keys, sunglasses, family members. Now she has come to the coast of Californi ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdi ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but e ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Yellowing on pages, well read. In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they me ...Show more
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
This is a funny and warm novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of bestselling hit The Jane Austen Book Club. 'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key ...Show more
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II, halcyon days have n ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2013Named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a m ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you. 'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' - Guardian 'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' - Barbara Kingsolver THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whir ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - A Novel by Karen Joy Fowler
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fer ...Show more