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Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen''s to her own neice, ''aunt'' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

Letters to Alice

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A Paperback / softback by Fay Weldon

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    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 06/05/1993
    ISBN13: 9780340589373, 978-0340589373
    ISBN10: 034058937X
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen''s to her own neice, ''aunt'' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

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