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Title: Modern Persuasion

Author: Sara Marks

Narrator: Diane Lehman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-17

Publisher: Sara Marks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Which would you pick: the person you love or your own dreams? What would you do if given a second chance at that decision?

Eight years ago, Emma Shaw picked her career and family over the man she loved, Fredrick Wentworth. Since then, she has built a career in publishing and spends her free time making sure her father and sisters are taken care of. Fredrick has spent the same years building his career as a screenwriter under increasing public scrutiny as a celebrity.

When the editor of Fredrick's first book is injured, Emma is forced to travel with Fredrick on his book tour. Tension builds for the two former lovers over the course of the tour. Emma and Fredrick must face their emotional baggage and their misunderstanding about how their break-up impacted the other. Will they be able to find their way back together for a second chance at love?

Members Reviews:

Postmodernly infectious--to perfection

Sara Marks' "Modern Persuasion" is in good company. Just as she takes off on Jane Austen, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was also an updated take, as described on Wikipedia: "The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both". Although "Modern Persuasion" is neither as tragic nor as literary, one of its many charms is that it revivifies memory of classic Austen--and sends you back to it. The best books often do that, as Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" recently echoed Virginia Woolf's novel, "Mrs. Dalloway". Another charm of "Modern Persuasion" is that it turns our understanding of being "modern" inside out. We may be up-to-date with text messaging, but the way these messages become graphics and counterpoint to the dialogue in "Modern Persuasion" echoes Jane Austen's original irony, when the constrained manners and speech of the characters are belied by their real desires. And Marks has her own ironies: In the tale of publishing and writers, one expects to hear about "writing styles"--but not about "editing" styles, as in this brilliant understatement: "Maybe she just recognized my editing style". Meanwhile, our cellphone (and smartwatch) life is documented with unself-conscious aplomb: "I still hadn't taken my phone off 'do not disturb' so I missed calls from Mary and Louise. Even Freddy put his phone on silent eventually. We weren't ready for the rest of the world". This novel begs the question of whether we readers, who constitute the rest of the world, are also ready to put our social selves on 'do not disturb' long enough to silently read this infectious postmodern work.

Highly Recommended

I started this book as the least likely person in the room to read a romance novel. Modern Persuasion didn't change that. I have no prior connection to it's inspiration (having never read an Austen novel in my life) and have never completed a romance novel outside of literature class. It's not my thing.

That said, Modern Persuasion didn't set out to make me a romance reader. It set out to be enjoyable, relatable, and cathartic.