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Win
Copies of NORTHANGER ABBEY, Featured in THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK
CLUB
Ever
thought about making your book club a Jane Austen Book Club?
Given the success of the bestseller THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, by Karen Joy
Fowler, we're sharing with book clubs what they need to make
this happen. Over the course of six months, we will publish a
discussion guide that Fowler has written expressly for book
clubs for one of the six Jane Austen titles mentioned in the
book. Our fourth selection is NORTHANGER ABBEY. Past selections included
EMMA, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and MANSFIELD PARK.
To make this Austen
celebration even more fun, we are selecting 5 groups to each
win 12 copies of NORTHANGER ABBEY for their discussion.
Interested? Send us your name and mailing address by writing
Contest@readinggroupguides.com by February 28, 2005 to
be eligible to win. See complete list of rules here.
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At the
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more here.
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Cage,
Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal
American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is
the golden boy--star athlete and scholar, adventurous,
handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet,
late-blooming middle son, and Harper, 10 years younger, chases
after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. With the
tragic death of Nick in the 1980s, the breakdown of the family
begins. Cage's guilt triggers incipient mental illness, and
the next two decades find him swinging between mania and
depression, between grim institutions and comebacks. Harper,
who achieved early success on Wall Street, is torn between
wanting to help his brother and seeking escape from his ghosts
via an endless stream of women. Told in the alternating voices
of Cage, Harper, and their parents, Cage's Bend is the
story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams,
and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love. Read
more here.
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Ann Baumbich For the
legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate life's
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