The Marriage Plot

Author  Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot

The brilliant and satisfying new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides.
 
It's the early 1980s--America is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on the cobble-streets of College Hill, 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 she prepares to graduate and tries to understand why her college love life has not lived up to expectations, she finds herself unexpectedly in a love triangle with two very different guys. Over the next year, as the…

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September 4, 2012
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