The Marriage Plot - by Jeffrey Eugenides (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of the most acclaimed literary novels of 2011 is now in paperback. Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet" ("Newsweek").<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist</b> <p/><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by<br><i>The New York Times Book Review - </i>NPR<i> - The New Republic - Salon - The Seattle Times - Houston Chronicle - The Miami Herald - Publisher's Weekly</i> </b> <p/><b>Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas.--Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/><b>A grand romance in the Austen tradition.--<i>USA Today</i></b> <p/>Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? <p/>It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes---the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in his most powerful novel yet (<i>Newsweek</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Eugenides's ability to reinvent the timeless tale of love and soul-searching is swoon-worthy." --<i>Vanity Fair</i> <p/>"I gorged myself on <i>The Marriage Plot.</i>" --<i>Geoff Dyer</i> <p/>"A masterful storyteller." --<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"Audacious and moving." --<i>Time</i> <p/>"Extremely ambitious...surprising, and propulsive." --<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <p/>"Deeply humane and elegantly constructed." --<i>NPR</i> <p/>"The finale of<i> The Marriage Plot</i> is unexpected, beautiful, and---Dare we hope?---timeless." --<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i> <p/>"A master of voice." --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Wry, engaging, and beautifully constructed." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Jeffrey Eugenides</b> was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, <i>The Virgin Suicides</i>, was published by FSG to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel <i>Middlesex </i>(FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.</p>
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