Eligible (Curtis Sittenfeld, 2016)
The Bennets in present-day Cincinnati, with Liz a magazine writer and Darcy a neurosurgeon.
Put the Bennets in a modern American family in trouble and the novel’s questions about money and marriage hold up.
You know the novel and you want a sharp modern version for adults.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the five sisters, the mother on a mission and the plot’s main turns, mapped onto the present.
Changes: the setting and the details: Liz writes for a magazine in New York, Chip Bingley is a doctor new in town, and Darcy is a neurosurgeon.
The Bennets in Cincinnati: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties, Darcy a neurosurgeon.
Whose story is it?
Liz’s, in her late thirties.
How much time does it ask?
528 pages in paperback.
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 18 April 2017, 528 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
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Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition