![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We have long wondered why no one has written such a novel. Baker was shooting for something less mercenary and more ambitious: the Wide Sargasso Sea of the Jane Austen oeuvre by which we mean a paraliterature title that strives for literary achievement as well as, or perhaps even more than, popularity. While this soundbyte selling point makes it simple for publishers and booksellers, we think it has done the authoress a disservice. The Commercial Publishing Industrial Complex has predictably lost its mind over it frankly, we are astonished that its publication did not rip open the fabric of the universe, creating a giant black hole that sucked us all into it. What a brilliant idea! Two of the most wildly popular and well-known popular culture properties–now together! It might be the greatest idea since some genius combined chocolate and peanut butter. When we heard this premise, we were all admiration. It has been described as being a cross between Pride and Prejudice and Downton Abbey. The publication of Jo Baker’s new novel Longbourn generated the same sort of excitement as the arrival of a single gentleman of good fortune. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |