Events2Join

Why read Austen Years?


'Austen Years,' by Rachel Cohen book review - The Washington Post

“Austen Years” is a hybrid memoir, combining literary criticism with personal history, including synopses of the novels to help readers who aren't familiar ...

REVIEW: Jane Austen's Novels, Read Through a Prism of ...

As a memoir, Austen Years has a guarded feel that can hold a reader at arm's length. No doubt, it's challenging to give characters enough heft ...

The Consolations of Jane Austen - The New York Times

Through the trials of new motherhood and the loss of a parent, Rachel Cohen read the English novelist exclusively. “Austen Years” is her ...

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen | Goodreads

A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in ...

Austen Years by Rachel Cohen - Open Letters Review

A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring ...

Austen Years - Required Reading

You can only read a book for the first time once, though the impression it leaves may be hazy or crystal clear; Cohen has some of both in her ...

Austen Years - Macmillan Publishers

Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer's relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, ...

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels - Rachel Cohen

My third book Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on July 21, 2020. It's a memoir about a period of life, ...

Why is Jane Austen still read and enjoyed today? - Reddit

Austen was an extremely grounded and subtle writer, who expected her readers to have a fluent understanding of the material conditions and social dynamics of ...

Austen Years - BookPage

Writers both renowned and aspiring seem to write sequels or interpretations of Pride and Prejudice faster than fans can read them. It sometimes feels as if ...

Austen Years: A Memoir in 5 Novels - Enchanted Prose

A good example is Sense and Sensibility. She'd thought it a “romantic comedy” – like most of us likely do – but upon closer examination concluded it's also a “ ...

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen

It has taken me MONTHS to read Austen Years. I was expecting a slow read, something to savor. What I got was floundering around. I'm still not ...

AUSTEN YEARS - Kirkus Reviews

A nuanced portrait of a writer and reader. ... How Jane Austen's novels can guide readers through joy and grief. “Criticism and memoir have always been near ...

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels | Longfellow Books

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.

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels - Publishers Weekly

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels · Rachel Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-10703-1 · Featured Nonfiction Reviews.

Jane Austen rescued her: A memoir about reading and solace

And yet, “Austen Years” is not a gloomy book. The sadness of a dying parent is balanced throughout the narrative by the joy of welcoming a new ...

Why are Jane Austen's books so interesting? - Reddit

Austen, on the other hand, relies heavily on making you care about and believe in the characters she writes. They're imperfect — that ...

Why I re-read Jane Austen - Fifteen Eighty Four

Without meaning to, I've re-read at least one of her novels each year. This time around, I recently finished Pride and Prejudice, and despite ...

When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Go to Jane Austen

Recently, Rachel Cohen's Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels ... Why read Austen in the trenches and army hospitals? Soldiers remembered ...

AUSTEN YEARS - Reading Group Choices

Austen Years is a best book club book for discussion, a memoir of mourning ... It's an absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again.