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6/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Rachel Cohen
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
July 21, 2020
A woman finds solace in Jane Austen following the death of her father and the birth of her child Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writerâs relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself.
What The Reviewers Say
Cohen has taken her fascination with – and personal dependence on – one great author and transmutes it into something any reader in the world will find downright marvelous.
... a complicated hybrid of a book that mixes Cohen’s singular insight into Austen as a writer with Cohen’s personal life.
Cohen’s incisive new book explores her immersion into Austen’s work during a fraught period in her personal life. Ultimately a narrative about grief, loss and resurfacing, it also provides a deep dive into some of Austen’s most penetrating writing.
[I] hereby advise you to read at least four if not all six of Jane Austen’s novels before you attempt Cohen’s extended meditation on them, and do not try to get away with watching the movie versions. If you disobey me, the main thing you will take away from Cohen’s book is that you must read all of Jane Austen as soon as possible.
