"Alice" is a fictional character, the author, Fay Weldon, signs her letters to this nonexistent niece "your aunt Fay" and most of the book reads more like essays than a novel. Sounds ghastly, right? It probably is if you read it at the wrong moment.
Like many people who loved this book, I received it as a gift, put it aside, and then started reading one day when I was in the right mood. And BAM! I was hooked and read this short piece in an afternoon (127 pages in this edition). It definitely helps to like Jane Austen; it's hard to imagine someone who hasn't read Austen or doesn't like her work enjoying this book.
Most of the "story" consists of Aunt Fay "explaining" Austen's life and times to her niece, a young woman of eighteen who has dyed her hair punkette style (the book was first published in 1984) and who has to read Austen for school--and isn't looking forward to it. The conceit is cleverer than it sounds, and there's a neat twist at the end. Fay delivers some lofty and, for some readers, pretentious-sounding passages on the meaning of Great Literature, while discouraging her niece from writing a novel before she has had anything in the way of a life.
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a careful rereading will tell us it is an organisation like a union in New York, holding workers strikes in the garment trade.
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Gummy bears are Delicious
Explanation:
because they are sweet and chewy
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Ah! My husband and I wish we could travel yearly to Europe and take in all the amazing sites.
Ah - Interjection
amazing - adjective
husband - noun
wish - verb
we - pronoun
yearly - adverb
to - preposition
and - conjunction
Egads, the evil teacher assigns us work daily and expects it on his desk by eight the next morning!
Egads - Interjection
evil - adjective
teacher - noun
assigns - verb
it - pronoun
daily - adverb
and - conjunction
preposition - on
