{"product_id":"9798897101313","title":"Miss Bates: Emma Revisited: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I read \u003ci\u003eMiss Bates\u003c\/i\u003e in a single, enraptured sitting. Cliff's prose is a joy — precise and rich and wickedly observant.\"—Belle Burden, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Bates, \u003c\/i\u003ecreepy, funny, and heartbreaking, is a daring reimagining of the world of Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e. But make no mistake, this is no marriage plot; it is a spinster plot. Or maybe, it is the spinster’s plot.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenrietta Bates, the iconic bore of \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. An unmarried woman of quite a different order from that novel's proudly single heroine, she is an object of scorn and pity, whose survival depends upon the generosity of her neighbors which she barters for with an unrelenting shower of banal and grateful chatter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But what if the woman we see in \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e were actually deliberately assuming a role, donning a mask, as a means of managing an untenable situation? What if there was a world of difference between her inward and outward voice? What would the Woodhouses’s Highbury look like from \u003ci\u003eher\u003c\/i\u003eperspective? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMiss Bates\u003c\/i\u003e by Catherine Cliff imagines answers to these questions as it chronicles Henrietta Bates's unexpected and, at times, violent life, navigating a world with no ready-made opportunities, where the stakes are of the highest order. In a debut that is by turns comedic, tragic, startling, and altogether brilliant, \u003ci\u003eMiss Bates\u003c\/i\u003e turns Austen’s poignant and ridiculous side character into a feminist force who understands innately the life she has been dealt and how to slyly play it to her advantage.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43322378485821,"sku":"9798897101313","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9798897101313_p0.jpg?v=1783170375","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9798897101313","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}