Austen Years
Book description
One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020
"A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice)
"An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." ―Helen Macdonald, author of H is…
Why read it?
1 author picked Austen Years as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
“About seven years ago,” Rachel Cohen writes at the beginning of Austen Years, “not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author.” Weaving together memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Cohen draws upon five of Austen’s novels to make sense of her own life and work as she raises young children, moves across the country, and grapples with her father’s death. The result is a brilliant and beautiful reflection upon family and loss, isolation and transcendence, and reading and rereading.
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