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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1594744424
ISBN-13: 9781594744426
Sep 2009
Publisher: Quirk Books
343 pages
Quirk Classics
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Following fast on the successful heels of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, Quirk books recasts the landed gentry and provincial country-folk of Jane Austen's first novel with ravenous cephalopods, over-grown crustaceans, and other frightening creatures of the deep blue sea. When their father dies and his estates passes to their older half-brother and his greedy wife, the ladies Dashwood (the eldest and most sensible sister Elinor, free-spirited Marianne, their mother and younger sister) must move from a comfortable British countryside home to a bizarre island overrun with oceanic monsters. Needless to say, adventures ensue. Riffing on Austen's work--which was itself parodying the romantic fiction of her times--is a genius move. Whether or not readers have spent time with the original text (or rabidly following the development of the sea-monster genre), the tropes are familiar enough and the adventures fun enough to make this quite an enjoyable read.
| Size | | Length: | 343 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"It's hard to say, in the end, if this is an homage, an exploitation, a deconstruction, or just a 300-page parlor trick....[T]he book's best moments do achieve a kind of bizarro symbiosis."
(09/14/2009)
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