{"product_id":"love-friendship-9781473639867","title":"Love  Friendship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CLEVER RE-IMAGINING OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELLA LADY SUSAN BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER WHIT STILLMAN, LOVE \u0026amp; FRIENDSHIP IS NOW A FILM STARRING KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY AND STEPHEN FRY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThank heaven for Whit Stillman and his reworking of Austen's novella, \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e... Stillman seamlessly interweaves the original text and his own words. There were moments when I was unsure which bits were Austen's and which were Stillman's... \u003cb\u003eIf, like me, you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman's \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eStillman has \u003cb\u003eimmense fun\u003c\/b\u003e playing the earnest, gullible narrator's misconceptions against the machinations of an arch-manipulator in this \u003cb\u003ewitty\u003c\/b\u003e, sly spoof * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAnyone expecting a straightforward novelisation of the film is actually going to find something far cleverer in their hands * Bookanista *\u003cbr\u003eLady Susan is finally getting some \u003cb\u003elong overdue respect\u003c\/b\u003e... The book and film both showcase \u003cb\u003esome of the sharpest lines from Austen's overlooked work.\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eFunny.... Lady Susan remains \u003cb\u003edeliciously wicked\u003c\/b\u003e * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStillman worships Austen\u003c\/b\u003e and [the book and film] show a deep familiarity with her life, work, and times * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eBoth movie and book are \u003cb\u003emuch funnier than they sound in a brief description\u003c\/b\u003e * Salon *\u003cbr\u003eStillman has \u003cb\u003ea fine eye for social niceties\u003c\/b\u003e * Library Journal, Editor's Pick *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity\u003c\/b\u003e... Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a \u003cb\u003ediverting romp.\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eStillman (The Last Days of Disco) \u003cb\u003ecleverly reimagines a little-known Jane Austen character\u003c\/b\u003e... Lady Susan's nephew, Martin Rufus Martin-Colonna de Cesari-Rocca, brings both \u003cb\u003equirky and hilarious flavor \u003c\/b\u003eto Stillman's story. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eFor those who have read Austen's original novella, you will remember that Lady Susan Vernon is described by Reginald De Courcy as \"the most accomplished coquette in England.\" and by others as devious, wicked and \"with a happy command of language, which is too often used, I believe, to make black appear white.\" \u003cb\u003eTo vindicate her scurrilous behavior is an intriguing premise indeed!\u003c\/b\u003e * Austen Prose - A Jane Austen Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR LOVE \u0026amp; FRIENDSHIP - THE FILM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA racy delight\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eWhat audacity, what elegance!\u003c\/b\u003e Here is a hilariously self-aware period comedy polished to a brilliant sheen\u003c\/p\u003e * Guardian ***** *\u003cbr\u003eShows just how funny Jane Austen can be... It's \u003cb\u003eflat-out hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003efind me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I'm tempted to offer your money back personally\u003c\/b\u003e * Telegraph ***** *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003every dry\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003etremendously witty\u003c\/b\u003e adaptation * Independent ***** *\u003cbr\u003eKate Beckinsale is wonderfully immoral in this \u003cb\u003epitch-perfect\u003c\/b\u003e adaptation that \u003cb\u003emay just be the best Jane Austen film ever made\u003c\/b\u003e... It's pitch-perfect, beautifully poised, \u003cb\u003efaithfully honouring the original while brilliantly dramatising and completing it\u003c\/b\u003e * London Evening Standard ***** *\u003cbr\u003eWonderful * Financial Times **** *\u003cbr\u003eIn the past quarter-century or so, \u003cb\u003ethere have been too many Jane Austen movies and too few Whit Stillman movies\u003c\/b\u003e... I'm happy to report, in any case, that the release of \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003emitigates both the shortage and the surfeit. It's the Whit Stillman movie that some of us have been waiting a long time for, and also a Jane Austen movie that \u003cb\u003egoes some way toward correcting the record of dull and dutiful cinematic Janeism\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Critic’s Pick *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Beckinsale is a devious delight\u003c\/b\u003e... Beckinsale is \u003cb\u003ea hoot to watch\u003c\/b\u003e as a character with no redeemable qualities, except for her cunning ability to get what she wants. You can't help but love Lady Susan because of the evident joy she takes in being so duplicitous. Her energy is infectious. Despite its period trappings, \u003cb\u003eStillman's film never feels stilted\u003c\/b\u003e, largely thanks to his bracingly modern heroine who takes no prisoners, and makes no apologies for her conniving behavior. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eane Austen has never been funnier\u003c\/b\u003e... Gliding through its compact 92 minutes with alert photography and \u003cb\u003enot a single scene wasted\u003c\/b\u003e, it's also \u003cb\u003eStillman on the form of his life\u003c\/b\u003e...Kate Beckinsale's best role in 20 years... \u003cb\u003ea deliciously controlled and self-aware performance\u003c\/b\u003e, playing the Austen title character as a born manipulator so devious she can spin the rest of the ensemble around her little finger... The performances, even from some of the more surprising cast members, are uniformly sharp... Perhaps only by reading the book after you've seen this is the skill of Stillman's treatment to be fully grasped - it's \u003cb\u003eone of the deftest feats of literary interpolation in ages\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003efresh\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ebeguiling \u003c\/b\u003emovie, and the \u003cb\u003ewittiest Austen adaptation\u003c\/b\u003e to grace the screen * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhit Stillman\u003c\/b\u003e, whose incisive comedies of bourgeois mores make him \u003cb\u003ethe modern cinema's Jane Austen\u003c\/b\u003e, adapts one of her early novels in\u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e...\u003cb\u003e fast\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eprecise\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003egiddily dialectical costume romp\u003c\/b\u003e... By way of his cast's mercurial verbal jousting and gestural elegance, Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners. * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eWhit Stillman may have fashioned the finest Jane Austen movie this year: the \u003cb\u003edelightfully droll\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Austen's novella \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e... \u003cb\u003eStillman so effortlessly, elegantly bridges the gap between his conniving aristocrats and Austen's that it's difficult to say where one's sensibility ends and the other's begins\u003c\/b\u003e. It's a misfortune that Stillman and Austen were born in different centuries, but \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfect match of two sly observers, each with the capacity to be at once cruelly satirical to, and fond, of, their creations. \u003cb\u003eBeckinsale is superb\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea most particular pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Post *\u003cbr\u003eWhit Stillman returns - and \u003cb\u003eon absolute peak form\u003c\/b\u003e - with this \u003cb\u003edrastically delightful\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Austen adaptation... \u003cb\u003eSuperlative\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eKate Beckinsale astonishes\u003c\/b\u003e * Little White Lies *\u003cbr\u003eThe central character is Lady Susan Vernon Martin, a widow of diminishing means \u003cb\u003eplayed with high duplicitous verve by Kate Beckinsale\u003c\/b\u003e * BBC Culture *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003esupremely elegant\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003edelicately filigreed\u003c\/b\u003e adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novella \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e...  \u003cb\u003eWhit Stillman proves an unsurprisingly intuitive fit for Austen\u003c\/b\u003e, but he also knows just how to give her pointed social satire an extra stab of wink-wink postmodern drollery without breaking the spell... \u003cb\u003eBeckinsale magnetizes the screen\u003c\/b\u003e * Variety *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSnappy\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003eCheeky\u003c\/b\u003e in its approach as well as \u003cb\u003espirited and good-natured\u003c\/b\u003e, this \u003cb\u003eenterprising\u003c\/b\u003e adaptation of the author's relatively unfamiliar early novella Lady Susan remains buoyant through most of its short running time * Hollywood Reporter *\u003cbr\u003ethe \u003cb\u003eperfect marriage between Stillman's absurdist wit and Austen's period manners\u003c\/b\u003e, further propped by \u003cb\u003eBeckinsale's vibrant, rhythmic hysterical performance\u003c\/b\u003e * Deadline *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867247980887,"sku":"9781473639867","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473639867.jpg?v=1722282413","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-friendship-9781473639867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}