If in Paris Jan 24 come to our @Shakespeare_Co event featuring rare edition of the Love & Friendship novel. Follows the Vaclav Havel evening https://t.co/09RaKWynbx
— Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) January 5, 2017
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‘Love & Friendship’ Novel
Whit Stillman’s novel, based on the film, Love & Friendship is out (since May 3rd). So if for some reason you cannot make it to the theater, then be sure to check out this highly acclaimed novel.
Purchase in the USA, UK & Canada
As a bonus it has the original text in the back.
“A postmodern confection [that’s] very, very funny.”―Penelope Green, New York Times
“In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master’s in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute.”―Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker
“A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity…. Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp.”―Kirkus Reviews
“Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect.”―Alexandra Alter, New York Times
“Witty and delightful.”―BookPage
“Both quirky and hilarious.”―Publishers Weekly
“Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked.”―Julia Felsenthal, Vogue
“Stillman worships Austen and [the book and film] show a deep familiarity with her life, work, and times.”―Laura Miller, Slate
“Stillman has a fine eye for social niceties.”―Library Journal, Editor’s Pick
“Both movie and book are much funnier than they sound in a brief description.”―Scott Timberg, Salon
Whit Stillman Book Signing & Screening in Princeton on Sunday
Princeton! @WhitStillman will be visiting this Sunday for a LOVE & FRIENDSHIP screening & signing! https://t.co/vZ2ZORhunE
— Little, Brown and Co (@littlebrown) June 2, 2016
Princeton Garden Theatre, Princeton Public Library, and Labyrinth Books Princeton are delighted to welcome writer/director Whit Stillman for a Q&A following a screening of his latest film LOVE & FRIENDSHIP.
Based on the unfinished Jane Austen novella “Lady Susan,” Whit Stillman has adapted the story for screen and written a novelization of the film also titled “Love & Friendship” which has been published by Little, Brown and Company. Following a screening of the film, Stillman will be taking questions from the audience and signing copies of the book. The book will be available for purchase at the theater before the screening.
Book signing will take place in the lobby after the Q&A. Thank you to Hachette Books for making this possible!
‘L&F’ Book Review
Unserious Austen by Adam Thirlwell at The New York Review of Books (May 27, 2016).
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship novel can be purchased on amazon.
It’s a quieter, English-country-house-version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses—where a ruthless woman is humiliated. But in Stillman’s rendering, something has happened to its finale. True, Lady Susan is now married to Sir James Martin and Frederica is married to Reginald De Courcy. But in the original, it is Reginald who broke off the relationship with Lady Susan, when he discovered the extent of her duplicity. In Love & Friendship, it is Lady Susan’s decision. It is not humiliation, but quiet control. At one point, her confidante, Mrs. Johnson, observes to Lady Susan that in fact to marry Sir James herself would not be an irrational project, given her precarious financial position as a widow: “I would rather be married to my own husband than dependent on the hospitality of others.” Stillman’s Lady Susan will not be Blanche DuBois. Her stratagems can be appreciated not as immoralities but as moving pirouettes of social survival.
‘Love & Friendship’ Novel Out Now!
Originally Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship novel was set for release on the 17th of May in the USA, but you can get it now!