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The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides📕 The Marriage Plot | Read More 📕
- Characters: Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, Mitchell Grammaticus
- ISBN: 9780374203054 (0374203059)
- Format: hardcover, 406 pages
- Genres: fiction, contemporary, romance, novels, literature, adult, american
- Release date: October 11, 2011
- Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Language: english
- Awards: Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction (2012), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), Grand prix de l’héroïne Madame Figaro for Roman étranger (2013)
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
About The Book
It’s the early 1980s — the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to the 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 tries to understand why „it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth century France,“ real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead — charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy — suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old „friend“ Mitchell Grammaticus — who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange — resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.
Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.
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? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
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