Cohen, whose contemporary version of Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen in Boca, ) was a delight, now tackles Persuasion in this strained romance about a high-school guidance counselor and the man she reluctantly threw over 13 years before.. Anne Ehrlich met Ben Cutler when she was a senior at Columbia and he was a bookish travel agent from Queens. · It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen centered her classic novels around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in this witty twist on Pride and Prejudice—-except this time the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida. Eligible men are scarce in www.doorway.ru: St. Martin's Publishing Group. · Welcome to Boca Resta Retirement Community, the setting of Paula Marantz Cohen’s debut novel, Jane Austen in Boca. If you are like me, and you’re stuck in portions of the country where the weatherman is saying, “Bundle up! There is a windchill advisory today!” for the umpteenth time, this is the perfect novel for you.
Jane Austen centered her classic novels around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in this witty twist on Pride and Prejudiceexcept this time the "village" is Boca Raton, www.doorway.rule men are scarce in Boca. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen centered her classic novels of manners around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in her novel, a witty twist on Pride and Prejudice--except this time, the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida. The title says it all. Cohen, a humanities professor and author of several books of scholarly nonfiction, offers a kosher teacake of a first novel loosely fashioned after Pride and Prejudice and elucidating the social mores of genteel Jewish retirees in Boca Raton.. Cohen's Boca are the condominium complexes full of retirees primarily from the Northeast.
Jane Austen centered her classic novels of manners around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in her novel, a witty twist on Pride and Prejudice--except this time, the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida. Eligible men, especially ones in possession of a good fortune and country club privileges, are scarce. Jane Austen in Boca: A Novel by Paula Marantz Cohen. Publication Date: October 1, ; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: pages; Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN ; ISBN Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of the novels, Jane Austen in Boca, Jane Austen in Scarsdale, and Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan, and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth and The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life.
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