Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice (Signed) | Curtis Sittenfeld

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Signed by the Author
Publisher: Random House (2016)
ISBN-10: 1400068320
ISBN-13: 9781400068326
Condition: Very Good. Corners of boards and spine-ends are bumped (small closed tears at top of the spine). A few wrinkles in the end-papers. The dust jacket has some rubbing and the edges are creased. Minor chipping at the ends of the folds. Else a very good copy.
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
Pages: 488
Dimensions: 16 x 3.5 x 24.2 cm
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by Curtis Sittenfeld (Signed by the Author)
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This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.

Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master's degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's fortieth birthday fast approaches.

Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip's friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.