The Marriage Plot: A Novel…………by Jeffrey Eugenides
“Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In The Marriage Plot, his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex), Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described “incurable romantic” who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle is Mitchell, a Religious Studies major from Eugenides’ own Detroit.
What follows is a book delivered in sincere and genuine prose, tracing the end of the students’ college days and continuing into those first, tentative steps toward true adulthood. This is a thoughtful and at times disarming novel about life, love, and discovery, set during a time when so much of life seems filled with deep portent. ”
“Wry, engaging and beautifully constructed.” -William Deresiewicz, The New York Times Book Review
“[The Marriage Plot] is sly, fun entertainment, a confection for English majors and book lovers . . . [His] most mature and accomplished book so far” Wall Street Journal
“This is a story about being young and bright and lost, a story Americans have been telling since Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.an exceptionally witty and poignant workout.” -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“This book is sweeter, kinder, with a more generous heart. What’s more, it is layered with exactly the kinds of things that people who love novels will love.” -Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
“There are serious pleasures here for people who love to read.” -Entertainment Weekly
$16 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011 Amazon.com
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