Becoming Jane Eyre

Author: Sheila Kohler

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Price : $20.00 AUD
ISBN : 9781849010863
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Corsair
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Weight (g) : 0.175
Publication date : 31 July 2011
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm X 16mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 19.99
Availability date : 01 January 2012
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Author : Sheila Kohler
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Edition : 1
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.914
Pages : 256
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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.

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A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre.

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Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. 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.

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