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Liz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They’ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development.
Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status – and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .
In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth.

From the “wickedly entertaining” (USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife, comes a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. A bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the twenty-first century. 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…

New York Timesi menuautori Curtis Sittenfeldi sulest ilmunud “Uhkuse ja eelarvamuse” tänapäevases stiilis ümberjutustus on ühtaegu nii austusavaldus Jane Austenile kui ka julge kirjanduslik eksperiment. Soe ja samas vaimukas “Väärt mees”, mis käsitleb soo-, klassi-, armastuse- ja pereprobleeme, on kahekümne esimese sajandi särav, vallatu ja hõrk perekonnalugu. Seesugused Bennetid ja härra Darcy on ühtviisi tuttavlikud ja tundmatud: Liz on ligi neljakümneaastane ajakirjanik, kes elab New Yorgis, nagu ka tema joogatreenerist vanem õde Jane. Isa äkilise haigestumise tõttu sõidavad õed lapsepõlvelinna Cincinnatisse vanematele appi – ja…

Liz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They’ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status – and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . . In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the…