Monday, April 07, 2008

2008 Book Lover's Page-a-Day Calendar (Workman Publishing) 4/4/8: The Hills at Home

The Hills at Home, by Nancy Clark (Pantheon, 2003)
The Book Lover's calendar pages often feature a subtitle, if you will—a title for the calendar page itself. This one's title, "JANE AUSTEN LIVES" was a bit of a turn-off for me. Not that I've read Jane Austen, but there's always been a connotation in my mind associated with her work. Upon reading the description of this book, I'm sold. Here it is (emphasis is mine): "The comedy of manners is alive and well. Throw three generations of WASPs (the Hills) together in a fading Victorian house, along with a graduate student writing a thesis on WASPs. Whip it all up with gentle sarcasm and long, meandering sentences with explosive comic payloads, and you have The Hills at Home, and impressive debut novel." I can't wait to find this book. Rating: 10/10 library cards.
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