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Eligible
- A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
- Lu par : Cassandra Campbell
- Durée : 13 h et 21 min
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From the "wickedly entertaining" (USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times best-selling author of Prep and American Wife, comes a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Equal parts homage to Jane Austen and bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the 21st century.
This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late 30s who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help - and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling, and the family is in disarray.
Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master's degree and barely leaves her room except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's 40th birthday fast approaches.
Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip's friend, neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming....
And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.
Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible both honors and updates Austen's beloved tale. Tackling gender, class, courtship, and family, Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.
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- turbigo2
- 17/05/2019
Cringe-worthy
While I knew that I was getting myself into a trashy chick-lit "retelling", and my expectations were already quite low, I still hoped the book would at least be entertaining. The reality tv setting was ridiculous, but I had expected that. Yet not only does the story get itself into unncessary twists, trying to fit every possible "relevant issue" into the narrative, it is way too long, with completely superfluous descriptions of restaurant orders or makeup routines, but the main characters, Elizabeth and Darcy, were just terrible. Liz is extremely annoying, described often as trying to be "fakely chirpy", and Cassandra Campbell's narration does her no justice, turning the already superficial heroine into either ditzy or bitchy. Darcy is completely flat and there is no real romance between them, except for when Liz suggests *cringe* "hate sex". Avoid
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