Has anything changed since The Taming of the Shrew, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Prince, Darwin, Freud, Machiavelli, Masters and Johnson? Or do the Unified Theories of Sexual Relativity-f=m$2 and m=f♀2-always apply? In this final book, the men are still from West Hollywood, Manhattan, Massachusetts, and Michigan; the women are from Newport, Rhode Island. The same fabled New England family is in decline and fall, and Jan Austen deals with the kind of Yale-educated, liberated woman who is not what every man wants. And the kind of Family man not every woman gets.
Austen has already written Book One, A Single Man, Good Fortune (Must Want Wife); Book Two, The Arts for Captivation; and Book Three, Pleasures of Youth.
Book Four, Politics of Sex, is the story of Nick D'Arcini and Elizabeth Bennet-Towne-the prejudiced and the feminist.
One of Austen's novels-written under a different pseudonym-became a major Hollywood movie. Others have been translated into German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish. More than thirty different editions of Austen's books have appeared worldwide. Major publishers of Austen's books have included divisions of Harcourt Brace, Random House, Bantam Dell and St Martin's Press.
