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The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:34:46 +0300 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54939-wits_end.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54939-wits_end.html
The author of The Jane Austen Book Club presents another highly inventive novel--one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the truth from fiction.]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:34:46 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54935-sister_noon.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54935-sister_noon.html
Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature. Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from this "fine writer" whose "language dazzles" (San Francisco Chronicle).]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:34:46 +0300 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54934-what_i_didnt_see_and_other_stories.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54934-what_i_didnt_see_and_other_stories.html
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can. The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn't See." With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.]]> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:34:45 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54940-the_best_american_science_fiction_and_fantasy_2016.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54940-the_best_american_science_fiction_and_fantasy_2016.html
"A great, fun, romping collection of stories." —San Francisco Book Review
"This volume's diverse list of well-known and rising stars . . . makes it a welcome addition to the 'Best American' series." —Washington Post
"A powerful collection that is worth your time, attention, and love." —Tor
In its inaugural edition, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy featured a diverse array of authors, stories, and sources. John Joseph Adams scours the magazine racks and websites to find the very best stories, and this year's guest editor, Karen Joy Fowler, is sure to curate a collection that encompasses all corners of the genres. As the best-selling author of both The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Fowler knows firsthand just how different one author's writing can be from work to work, and she will bring that literary sensibility to her selections. However, she is...]]> Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:34:46 +0300 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/610291-booth.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/610291-booth.html
From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.
 
As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple...]]> Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:55:28 +0300 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54942-the_science_of_herself.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54942-the_science_of_herself.html
Widely respected in the so-called “mainstream” for her New York Times bestselling novels, Karen Joy Fowler is also a formidable, often controversial, and always exuberant presence in Science Fiction. Here she debuts a provocative new story written especially for this series. Set in the days of Darwin, “The Science of Herself” is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction: the almost-true story of England’s first female paleontologist who took on the Victorian old-boy establishment armed with only her own fierce intelligence—and an arsenal of dino bones. Plus...
“The Pelican Bar,” a homely tale of family ties that makes Guantánamo look like summer camp; “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man,” a droll tale of sports, shoplifting and teen sex; and “The Motherhood Statement,” a quietly angry upending of easy assumptions that shows off Fowler’s deep radicalism and impatience with conservative homilies and liberal pieties alike. And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview in which Fowler prophesies California’s fate, reveals the role of bad movies in good marriages, and intimates that girls just want to have fun (which means make trouble).]]> Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:34:47 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54937-we_are_all_completely_beside_ourselves.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54937-we_are_all_completely_beside_ourselves.html
Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; now that she's started college, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone—vanished from her life. Her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And there was something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern.
You'll have to find out for yourself what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.]]> Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:34:46 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54943-sarah_canary.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54943-sarah_canary.html
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.]]> Sun, 27 Oct 1991 17:34:47 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54941-the_sweetheart_season.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54941-the_sweetheart_season.html
As a rebellious daughter of the sixties recalls the year her mother played baseball in 1947, two luminous stories begin to unfold in America's heartland, one lived and one imagined. . . .]]> Sun, 27 Oct 1996 17:34:46 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54936-black_glass.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/54936-black_glass.html
Gifted novelist Fowler ( Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season ) delights in the arcane, and as a result, these 15 clever tales are occasionally puzzling but never dull. In the long title story, "Black Glass", temperance activist Carry Nation is resurrected in the 1990s ("We're talking about a very troubled, very big woman," says one shaken barman to reporters) and becomes such a nuisance that the DEA is forced to dispatch her with voodoo. Other plots are only slightly less outrageous in conceit. In "Lieserl," a lovesick madwoman dupes Albert Einstein into believing he has a daughter; in "The Faithful Companion at Forty," Tonto admits to second thoughts about his biggest life choice ("But for every day, for your ordinary life, a mask is only going to make you more obvious. There's an element of exhibitionism in it"). "The Travails" offers a peek at the one-sided correspondence of Mary Gulliver, who wants Lemuel to come home already and help out around the house. The homage to Swift makes sense, for, when Fowler doesn't settle for amusing her readers, she makes a lively satirist. The extraterrestrials who appear in her stories (whether the inscrutably sadistic monsters in "Duplicity" or the members of a seminar studying late-1960s college behavior in "The View from Venus: A Case Study") seem stand-ins for the author herself, who, in elegant and witty prose, cultivates the eye of a curious alien and, along the way, unfolds eccentric plots that keep the pages turning. Contents:
Black Glass (1991)
Contention (1986)
Shimabara (1995)
The Elizabeth Complex (1996)
Go Back (1998)
The Travails (1998)
Lieserl (1990)
Letters from Home (1987)
Duplicity (1989)
The Faithful Companion at Forty (1987)
The Brew (1995)
Lily Red (1988)
The Black Fairy's Curse (1997)
The View from Venus (1986)
Game Night at the Fox and Goose (1989)]]> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:34:46 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/294525-what_i_didnt_see.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/294525-what_i_didnt_see.html
Praise for Karen Joy Fowler:"No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."—Michael Chabon"Fowler's witty writing is a joy to read."—USA TodayWorld Fantasy Award WinnerIn her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation...]]> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:04:51 +0200 https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/217192-standing_room_only.html https://library.land/karen-joy-fowler/217192-standing_room_only.html
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