{"product_id":"austen-years-a-memoir-in-five-novels-paperback","title":"Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer's commitment to another. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(editors' choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003en absolutely fascinating book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: I will never read Austen the same way again. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Helen Macdonald, author of \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen's novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAusten Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer's relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen's novels, the scope of \u003ci\u003eAusten Years\u003c\/i\u003e widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father's last letter, a moment paired with the grief of \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e and the social bonds of \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father's legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen's life and literature, and guided by Austen's mournful and hopeful final novel, \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel Cohen's \u003ci\u003eAusten Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eBernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade\u003c\/i\u003e, which was long-listed for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books, The Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Chica\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44664000839782,"sku":"9781250798572","price":28.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bTdqOWNmL3J4VnlheDIvdmxzVzkvZz09.webp?v=1770947581","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/austen-years-a-memoir-in-five-novels-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}