Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels By: Rachel Cohen [Audiobook]

Author: Rachel Cohen
Narrated by: Justine Eyre, Rachel Cohen

“Narrator Justine Eyre meets all the challenges of author Rachel Cohen’s unique memoir, which recounts her deep reading of Jane Austen’s novels…Listeners do not need to be Austen aficionados to relate to this well-told personal journey.” (AudioFile magazine)

This program includes a letter read by the author.

An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live

“About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author.”

In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. 

Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen’s novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma.

With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large. 

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux 

“An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again.” (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk) 

“Exhilarating and beautiful.” (Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl)

General Information
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 Title:                  Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
 Author:                 Rachel Cohen
 Read By:                Justine Eyre, Rachel Cohen
 Copyright:              2020
 Audiobook Copyright:    2020
 Genre:                  Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
 Publisher:              Macmillan Audio
 Abridged:               No
Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Digital
 Source:                 Overdrive MP3
 Condition:              Chapterized
File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         14
 Total Duration:         10:02:08
 Total MP3 Size:         279.86
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              3j
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
 Normalize:              None
 Noise Reduction:        None
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
"Narrator Justine Eyre meets all the challenges of author Rachel Cohen's 
unique memoir, which recounts her deep reading of Jane Austen's novels...
Listeners do not need to be Austen aficionados to relate to this well-told 
personal journey." (AudioFile magazine)
This program includes a letter read by the author.
An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare 
understanding of how to live
"About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and 
a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author."
In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the 
death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense 
of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed 
by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her 
ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, 
memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, 
reading, writing, and imagining through Austen's novels. 
Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writers 
relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, 
criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. 
And like the sequence of Austens novels, the scope of Austen Years 
widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. 
We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her 
small children and contemplates her father's last letter, a moment paired 
with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride 
and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples 
with her growing children, teaching, and her fathers legacy, all refracted 
through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma.
With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen's life and literature, 
and guided by Austen's mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, 
Rachel Cohen's Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, 
a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of 
the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world 
at large. 
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux 
"An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way 
again." (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk) 
"Exhilarating and beautiful." (Claire Messud, author of The Burning 
Girl)
2020 Rachel Cohen (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

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