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The Jane Austen book club

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.

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  • "Book Group To Go"@en
  • "Book clubs to go : Jane Austen book club"
  • "Book clubs to go"
  • "Jane Austen book club"@ja
  • "Jane Austen Book Club"@pl
  • "Jane Austen Book Club"

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  • "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."@en
  • "Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens."
  • "Lest there be any doubts about the ongoing relevance of the novels of Jane Austen, the charming Jane Austen Book Club will lay them to rest--with wit, sharp insight, and a wicked chuckle or three. Directed by the talented Robin Swicord, who adapted the book by Karen Joy Fowler (and also wrote the crackling screenplay for the 1994 version of Little Women), the film is a modern-day comedy of manners, with deeply felt emotions, repressed feelings, unquenched desire and embarrassing relatives--all staples of Austen works. The film centers on a group of six friends in Sacramento, Calif., who gather to distract themselves from loss (a newly dumped Sylvia, played with grace and quiet pain by Amy Brenneman), repressed disappointment (the prissy teacher Prudie, played by Emily Blunt), or a life of unrealized dreams (Jocelyn, played by Maria Bello, whose acting skills have gained great nuance, both in comedy and drama). All are devoted Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg (Hugh Dancy, adorable and available, ladies), who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. As the months unfold, we learn about the relationships of all the members, and watch as elements of Austen's novels and characters pop up with enchanting regularity. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility (Sylvia's daughter Allegra, headstrong and reckless in life and love, played by Maggie Grace)--and a fair amount of persuasion (Grigg and Sylvia's caddish ex, Daniel, a smooth Jimmy Smits). As the minuet of relationships and alliances unfolds over the months, the emotions are real and the leavening humor spot-on. About the only thing that doesn't ring true is seeing all these Sacramento women bundled up in shawls, blankets, thick sweaters and extra layers--even in July(!). Still, the film will engage even reluctant Austen readers (if there is such a thing). As Kathy Baker's Bernadette says gaily, "Jane Austen is the perfect antidote to life!" Elizabeth Bennett couldn't have put it better."
  • "En Californie, chronique sur six mois de la vie sentimentale et amoureuse tourmentée des six membres du club Jane Austen, cinq femmes et un homme réunis autour d'un même goût pour les oeuvres de la romancière britannique."
  • "Vijf Californische vrouwen en een man komen een half jaar lang elke maand bijeen om een van de zes romans van Jane Austen te bespreken, waarbij de romans dienen als klankbord voor de levens van de lezers."
  • "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 an eye for the frailities of human behavior and an ear for the absurdities fo social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier, nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships."@en
  • "As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love."@en
  • "As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love."

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  • "Humorous fiction"@pl
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Récits humoristiques"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Love stories"@pl
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Fiction"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Novel·les"
  • "Histoires d'amour"

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  • "Jane Austen book club"
  • "Jane Austen book club"@it
  • "El Club de lectura Jane Austen"
  • "De Jane Austen-leesclub"
  • "The Jane Austen book club : [a novel]"
  • "Der Jane Austen Club : Roman"
  • "Jane Austen-klubben"@da
  • "Jane Austen-klubben"@sv
  • "Книжный клуб Джейн Остен"
  • "ジェイン・オースティンの読書会"
  • "Der Jane-Austen-Club"
  • "The Jane Austen book club"@it
  • "The Jane Austen book club"@en
  • "The Jane Austen book club"
  • "Jiein ōsutin no dokushokai"@ja
  • "THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB"
  • "Le club Jane Austen : roman"
  • "Jein ōsutin no dokushokai"@ja
  • "Jein ōsutin no dokushokai"
  • "Der Jane-Austen-Club Roman"
  • "The Jane Austen book club : a novel"
  • "The Jane Austen book club : a novel"@en
  • "Jane Austen -lukupiiri"@fi
  • "Le club Jane Austen"
  • "El club de lectura Jane Austen"
  • "El club de lectura Jane Austen"@es
  • "The Jane Austen book club a novel"
  • "Der Jane-Austen-Club : Roman"
  • "Chein Osŭtin pukkŭlrŏp"
  • "The Jane Austen Book Club"@en
  • "The Jane Austen book club : book club in a bag"
  • "The Jane Austen book club [HDL Book Group To Go]"@en
  • "El club del lectura Jane Austen"
  • "Knizhnyĭ klub Dzheĭn Osten"
  • "Klub miłośników Jane Austen"@pl
  • "Klub miłośników Jane Austen"

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