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Jane Austen in Scarsdale - by Paula Marantz Cohen (Paperback)

Jane Austen in Scarsdale - by  Paula Marantz Cohen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The bestselling author of "Jane Austen in Boca" combines the wit and romance of Austen's "Persuasion" with a brilliantly astute look at the frenzy of college admissions in this irresistible comedy of manners.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Anne Ehrlich is a dedicated guidance counselor steering her high-school charges through the perils of college admission. Thirteen years ago, when she was graduating from Columbia University, her wealthy family---especially her dear grandmother Winnie---persuaded her to give up the love of her life, Ben Cutler, a penniless boy from Queens College. Anne has never married and hasn't seen Ben since---until his nephew turns up in her high school and starts applying to college. <p/> Now Ben is a successful writer, a world traveler, and a soon-to-be married man; and Winnie's health is beginning to fail. All of these changes have Anne beginning to wonder...Can old love be rekindled, or are past mistakes too painful to forget? <p/> With all the wit and perceptiveness of Jane Austen's <i>Persuasion</i>, <i>Jane Austen in Scarsdale</i> is a fresh and romantic new comedy from a novelist with a knack for making modern life reflect literature in the most engaging manner <i>(Library Journal).</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"For every frazzled student applying to college, for all anxious parents trying to get a student into college, for all teachers besieged by requests for higher grades and glowing letters of recommendation, this book is for you. I am persuaded that Cohen, like Jane Austen, knows how to work things out for her heroine--neatly and satisfactorily. I loved it." --Ann B. Ross, author of MISS JULIA'S SCHOOL OF BEAUTY <p/>"Paula Marantz Cohen has done it again! Jane Austen in Scarsdale is laugh-out-loud funny, literate, wise--and best of all, a satirical mirror of our times. She has become our own Jane Austen." --Diane Ravitch, author of THE LANGUAGE POLICE</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of two previous novels, <i>Jane Austen in Boca</i> and <i>Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan</i>, and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including <i>Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth</i> and <i>The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life</i>. She lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.</p>

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