Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
Autor Whit Stillmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2017
*NOW
A
MAJOR
FILM
STARRING
KATE
BECKINSALE,
CHLOE
SEVIGNY
&
STEPHEN
FRY*
ACCLAIM FOR THE BOOK: "Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked" (Vogue); "Very, very funny" (New York Times), "[A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony" (New York Review of Books); "Quirky and hilarious" (Publishers Weekly); "An eccentrically cheeky tribute" (New Yorker)
A sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Jane Austen and Whit Stillman fans alike
Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn ofLove & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands--and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of 'most accomplished coquette in England', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy. Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law's country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to 'I do'. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue.
A SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING JANE AUSTEN'S ORIGINAL NOVELLA AS ANNOTATED BY THE NARRATOR
ACCLAIM FOR THE BOOK: "Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked" (Vogue); "Very, very funny" (New York Times), "[A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony" (New York Review of Books); "Quirky and hilarious" (Publishers Weekly); "An eccentrically cheeky tribute" (New Yorker)
A sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Jane Austen and Whit Stillman fans alike
Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn ofLove & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands--and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of 'most accomplished coquette in England', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy. Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law's country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to 'I do'. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue.
A SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING JANE AUSTEN'S ORIGINAL NOVELLA AS ANNOTATED BY THE NARRATOR
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316294157
ISBN-10: 0316294152
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316294152
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Whit
Stillman--winner
of
France's
Prix
Fitzgerald
for
his
prior
novel--is
the
writer-director
of
five
films,
includingMetropolitan,Barcelona,
The
Last
Days
of
Disco,
Damsels
inDistress,andLove
&
Friendship,a
mendacious
representation
of
this
story.
At
university,
he
was
an
editor
of
theHarvard
Crimson,and
he
later
worked
in
book
publishing
and
journalism.
His
first
novel,The
Last
Days
of
Disco,
WithCocktails
at
Petrossian
Afterwards,was
also
derived
from
a
film
story.
Recenzii
PRAISE
FORLOVE
&
FRIENDSHIP:
THE
BOOK
"A postmodern confection [that's] very, very funny."--Penelope Green,New York Times
"In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master's in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute."--Alexandra Schwartz,New Yorker
"A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity.... Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp."--Kirkus Reviews
"Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect."--Alexandra Alter,New York Times
"Witty and delightful."--BookPage
"Both quirky and hilarious."--Publishers Weekly
"Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked."--Julia Felsenthal,Vogue
"[A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony.... Stillman's gravity comes from the way he both understands the terrors of social relations--the pursuit of love and friendship--and also admires all strategies in artifice that might soften these terrors, subvert the tyranny of misinterpretation, and restore a version of utopia."--Adam Thirlwell,New York Review of Books
"Show[s] a deep familiarity with [Austen's] life, work, and times."--Laura Miller,Slate
"Wickedly funny."--Holly Parmalee,Serendipity
"Stillman has a fine eye for social niceties."--Library Journal,Editor's Pick
"If you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman'sLove & Friendship."--Paula Byrne,The Times(UK)
"One of the classiest book-to-movie novelizations that's ever existed."--Rebecca Pahle,Film Journal International
PRAISE FORLOVE & FRIENDSHIP: THE FILM
"A racy delight."--Peter Bradshaw,Guardian
"[A] fast, precise, and giddily dialectical costume romp.... Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners."--Richard Brody,New Yorker
"Delightfully droll.... Stillman so effortlessly, elegantly bridges the gap between his conniving aristocrats and Austen's that it's difficult to say where one's sensibility ends and the other's begins."--Kyle Smith,New York Post
"Flat-out hilarious -- find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I'm tempted to offer your money back personally."--Tim Robey,Telegraph
"A supremely elegant and delicately filigreed adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novellaLady Susan."--Justin Chang,Variety
"The perfect marriage between Stillman's absurdist wit and Austen's period manners."--Anthony D'Alessandro,Deadline
"So clever in its repartee."—Flavorwire
"A postmodern confection [that's] very, very funny."--Penelope Green,New York Times
"In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master's in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute."--Alexandra Schwartz,New Yorker
"A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity.... Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp."--Kirkus Reviews
"Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect."--Alexandra Alter,New York Times
"Witty and delightful."--BookPage
"Both quirky and hilarious."--Publishers Weekly
"Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked."--Julia Felsenthal,Vogue
"[A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony.... Stillman's gravity comes from the way he both understands the terrors of social relations--the pursuit of love and friendship--and also admires all strategies in artifice that might soften these terrors, subvert the tyranny of misinterpretation, and restore a version of utopia."--Adam Thirlwell,New York Review of Books
"Show[s] a deep familiarity with [Austen's] life, work, and times."--Laura Miller,Slate
"Wickedly funny."--Holly Parmalee,Serendipity
"Stillman has a fine eye for social niceties."--Library Journal,Editor's Pick
"If you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman'sLove & Friendship."--Paula Byrne,The Times(UK)
"One of the classiest book-to-movie novelizations that's ever existed."--Rebecca Pahle,Film Journal International
PRAISE FORLOVE & FRIENDSHIP: THE FILM
"A racy delight."--Peter Bradshaw,Guardian
"[A] fast, precise, and giddily dialectical costume romp.... Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners."--Richard Brody,New Yorker
"Delightfully droll.... Stillman so effortlessly, elegantly bridges the gap between his conniving aristocrats and Austen's that it's difficult to say where one's sensibility ends and the other's begins."--Kyle Smith,New York Post
"Flat-out hilarious -- find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I'm tempted to offer your money back personally."--Tim Robey,Telegraph
"A supremely elegant and delicately filigreed adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novellaLady Susan."--Justin Chang,Variety
"The perfect marriage between Stillman's absurdist wit and Austen's period manners."--Anthony D'Alessandro,Deadline
"So clever in its repartee."—Flavorwire
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A CLEVER RE-IMAGINING OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELLA LADY SUSAN BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER WHIT STILLMAN, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP IS NOW A FILM STARRING KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY AND STEPHEN FRY.
A CLEVER RE-IMAGINING OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELLA LADY SUSAN BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER WHIT STILLMAN, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP IS NOW A FILM STARRING KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY AND STEPHEN FRY.