5/24/2023 0 Comments Eligible pride and prejudice![]() They have men in their lives, but not the right ones. The eldest, Jane, is 39, with our heroine Liz, a New York-based magazine writer, nipping at her heels at 38. But give Sittenfeld props for diving into her chick-lit satire (sanctioned by The Austen Project) with gusto, and making interesting choices - some work better than others - about how to move the long-gone world of ballrooms and “marriageable” girls into the present.Īll five contemporary Bennet sisters are eligible, and these spinster sisters are considerably older than their Austen counterparts. If you’re updating the adorably contentious love story of “Liz” Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy for 2016, you have to throw in texting, reality TV, hookup sex, start-ups, transgender politics and yoga, right? So it would seem, and somehow it mostly works, even if gentle Jane is probably rolling over in her grave in Winchester Cathedral.Īusten’s 1813 classic comedy of manners, money and marriage is holding up quite nicely on its own, thank you. Sittenfeld, witty author of Prep and American Wife, seems the woman for the job in the 21st century, as Bridget creator Helen Fielding was in the 1990s. Make way for Curtis Sittenfeld, whose amusing if crass new novel Eligible (Random House, 488 pp., *** out of four stars) is the latest “modern retelling” of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s beloved Regency romance. ![]()
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