Becoming Jane Eyre by Kohler, Sheila

Becoming Jane Eyre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143115977)

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Becoming Jane Eyre by Kohler, Sheila

Becoming Jane Eyre

$17.00
Becoming Jane Eyre by Kohler, Sheila

Becoming Jane Eyre

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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A beautifully imagined tale of the Bront sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.

The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent.

So unfolds the story of the Bront sisters. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of Jane Eyre. Delicately unraveling the connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore Jane Eyre, as well as biographies about the Bront s like Claire Harman's Charlotte Bront A Fiery Heart.

Author: Sheila Kohler
ISBN-10: 0143115979
ISBN-13: 9780143115977
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2009 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2009
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2009 pg. 6
New York Times Book Review 01/03/2010 pg. 18
By Sheila Kohler
By Sheila Kohler
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Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She later lived in Paris for fifteen years, where she married, completed her undergraduate degree in Literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in Psychology at the Institut Catholique. She moved to the U.S. in 1981 and earned an MFA in Writing at Columbia. She currently teaches at Princeton University. Becoming Jane Eyre is her 10th book. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, O Magazine and included in the Best American Short Stories. She has twice won an O'Henry Prize, as well as an Open Fiction Award, a Willa Cather Prize, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize. Her novel Cracks was nominated for an Impac Award, and has been made into a feature film to be distributed by IFC. She has been published in 8 countries.

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