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The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Description for The Marriage Plot
Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 200 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.
Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.
Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. ... Read more
But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007441303
SKU
V9780007441303
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin ... Read more
Reviews for The Marriage Plot
‘If you were ever young and thought you knew what you wanted, if you ever imagined that no one could feel such intensity of emotion as you, if you ever had your dreams dashed and your heart broken, then this is the book for you’ The Times ‘I ... Read more