The Little Women: A Novel by Katharine Weber (English) Paperback Book

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In Weber's third novel--classic storytelling in a contemporary mode--three adolescent sisters (Meg, Jo, and Amy) are shocked when they discover their mother's affair and their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family.

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Sisters Meg, Jo and Amy have the perfect family--loving, creative parents; a comfortable life on Manhattan's Upper West Side; a future full of possibility. Perfect until the daughters discover their mother has had affair, and, even worse, that their father has forgiven her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New York and move to Meg's apartment in New Haven, where Meg is a junior at Yale. It is here that the girls will form their own family, divorced from their parents. The Little Women is a chronicle of that year, wittily narrated as a novel written by the middle sister Jo and commented upon throughout by her sisters.

Author Biography

Katharine Weber lives in Connecticut.

Review

"The very epitome of clever: smartly written and snappily paced." --The Chicago Tribune "Creeping into the whelk shell of Louisa May Alcott's celebrated novel it avails itself of the spirals to do double and triple twists inside them.... She has written not so much a novel of ideas as a play of ideas." --Richard Eder, The New York Times "Sheer fun." --Marianne Evett, The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Lively, interesting and funny...unusually good-natured and well written." --Emily Barton, The New York Times Book Review "Neatly adapts Alcott's formality to mimic the voices of prematurely sophisticated teens today." --Entertainment Weekly

Review Quote

"The very epitome of clever: smartly written and snappily paced." --The Chicago Tribune "Creeping into the whelk shell of Louisa May Alcott's celebrated novel it avails itself of the spirals to do double and triple twists inside them.... She has written not so much a novel of ideas as a play of ideas." --Richard Eder, The New York Times "Sheer fun. --Marianne Evett, The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Lively, interesting and funny...unusually good-natured and well written." --Emily Barton, The New York Times Book Review "Neatly adapts Alcott's formality to mimic the voices of prematurely sophisticated teens today." --Entertainment Weekly

Description for Reading Group Guide

Reader's Guide Synopsis Bringing contemporary sensibilities to Louisa May Alcott's inimitable nineteenth-century heroines, acclaimed novelist Katharine Weber has created a narrative rich with thoughtprovoking topics. An innovative reinvention of Meg, Jo, and Amy, The Little Women places the sisters in a decidedly modern dilemma when they discover that their mother, a literature professor at New York University, has been having an affair with one of her graduate students. Their image of family perfection shattered, the sisters can't forgive their mother (though their father does). Choosing to exile themselves in New Haven, Connecticut, where Meg is attending Yale, the siblings find independence to be more elusive than they had anticipated. As they cope with the absence of parents, money, and vibrant Manhattan, the trio faces a semester of challenges with the strength of character made famous by their Little Women predecessors. But Weber doesmore than recast the story line: in an entertaining stroke of metafiction, The Little Women features copious notes-- ranging from highbrow literary debates to lowbrow squabbles--between Joanna (the book's "author") and her two sisters. Raising invigorating questions about family ties, romantic pursuits as well as academic ones, memoir versus autobiographical fiction, and the role of Alcott's phenomenal bestseller in the lives of readers today, The Little Women lends itself to lively and diverse conversation. We hope the following questions will enrich your discussion of the Green sisters and their abbreviated adolescence.

Excerpt from Book

The Little Women ONE The Dark Day

Details ISBN0312423098 Author Katharine Weber Edition Description Picador Language English ISBN-10 0312423098 ISBN-13 9780312423094 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2004 Short Title LITTLE WOMEN Residence Bethany, CT, US Birth 1955 Subtitle A Novel DOI 10.1604/9780312423094 Imprint St Martin's Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2004-10-01 NZ Release Date 2004-10-01 US Release Date 2004-10-01 UK Release Date 2004-10-01 Pages 256 Publisher St Martin's Press Publication Date 2004-10-01 Audience General We've got this

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