Vanity and Vexation : : a Novel of Pride and Prejudice
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When the BBC sends Mary Dance and Candia Bingham to the quiet Yorkshire community of Maltstone to make the film, Pride and Prejudice, writer Nick Bevan and his neighbor and best friend John develop mixed feelings about director Dance and her leading lady.
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Fine Remake of Pride & Prejudice
submitted by sdunav on August 26, 2011, 4:26pm
This is a witty, fun and very, British novel about a writer and the director of a remake of "Pride & Prejudice". The story's parallels to P & P are pretty clever, with the added twist that the sexes have been reversed - the proud, controlling, and misunderstood character is a woman, and the man is down to earth and charming (with very fine eyes).
Since it is set in the present and not the 19th century, there is some sex in addition to letter writing and country dances. The cover blurb says "frothy" at least twice but I didn't find it frothy at all. Light, but definitely not frothy.
PUBLISHED
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
031232801X
9780312328016
0312328028
9780312328023
SUBJECTS
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Film and video adaptations -- Fiction.
Women television producers and directors -- Fiction.
Television actors and actresses -- Fiction.
Novelists -- Fiction.
York (England) -- Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Love stories.