Jane Austen in Scarsdale Or Love, Death, and the SATs

Anne Ehrlich is a lovely and dedicated guidance counselor who has never been married; she let the love of her life slip away when her snobbish Scarsdale family disapproved of penniless Ben Cutler from Queens. Anne hasnt seen Ben sincebut when his nephew turns up in her high school and starts applying to college, Anne starts to wonderCan old love be rekindled and past mistakes be put right?

Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of two previous novels, Jane Austen in Boca and Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan, and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth and The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life. She lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.

Praise for Jane Austen in Scarsdale

“For every frazzled student applying to college, for all anxious parents trying to get a student into college, for all teachers besieged by requests for higher grades and glowing letters of recommendation, this book is for you. I am persuaded that Cohen, like Jane Austen, knows how to work things out for her heroine--neatly and satisfactorily. I loved it.�
---Ann B. Ross, author of MISS JULIA'S SCHOOL OF BEAUTY

“Paula Marantz Cohen has done it again! Jane Austen in Scarsdale is laugh-out-loud funny, literate, wise--and best of all, a satirical mirror of our times. She has become our own Jane Austen.�
---Diane Ravitch, author of THE LANGUAGE POLICE

Acclaim for the Previous Novels of Paula Marantz Cohen

MUCH ADO ABOUT JESSIE KAPLAN

“A brightly comic book…[that explores] the redemptive capacity of the literary imagination…Highly literate light fiction.�
---Times Literary Supplement

“Unabashedly entertaining reading…touching and not a little wise.�
---The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A comic tour-de-force…as fresh and pungent as an apple cake [that] proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful.�
---The Hudson Review

JANE AUSTEN IN BOCA

“Utterly charming…think Pride and Prejudice, but with better weather.�
---Vanity Fair

“Page-turner of the week… Austen never schmoozed by the pool with a pack of bronzed yentas, but her Pride plot proves as durable as ever…in this witty romp.�
---People magazine

“Clever, warmhearted…Cohen's wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target.�
---The San Francisco Chronicle

“While the novel works as a clever remake of Pride and Prejudice, it has equal merit as contemporary social commentary.�
---Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal