HardCover. Pub Date :2011-10-11 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Fourth Estate 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.Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner and college Darwinist - suddenly turns up in a 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 i...

The Marriage Plot

Eugenides, Jeffrey

4th Estate

Product DescriptionThe 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. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.About the AuthorJeffrey 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 Literary Award and France's Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.

TheMarriage Plot by Eugenides, Jeffrey ( Author ) ON Apr-12-2012, Paperback

Fourth Estate

Fresh Complaint

HARPER/COLLINS

The Virgin Suicides

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Middlesex

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Genre Fiction

FRESH COMPLAINT

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The Virgin Suicides: Jeffrey Eugenides (Collins Modern Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

“Beautifully crafted . . . eclectic and original . . . this collection makes us remember how powerful and essential the best short stories are.” ―Francine Prose, O magazine My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead is a literary masterpiece of amorous tales selected by Pulitzer Prize–winner Jeffrey Eugenides. From classics such as Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Lapdog” to such modern fare as Richard Ford’s “Fireworks,” these outstanding works capture the desire, obsession, power, and spirit of the emotion that drives and transforms our lives. Writers featured include:
William Faulkner • James Joyce • Alice Munro • Milan Kundera • Grace Paley • Lorrie Moore • Eudora Welty • Denis Johnson • Vladimir Nabokov • Miranda July • Raymond Carver • George Saunders • Annie Proulx • And many, many more.

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

The long-awaited new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides. "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." —Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot: purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life, despite her good looks, hadn't lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course "to see what all the fuss is about," and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with Leonard Morten - charismatic loner, college Darwinist and lost Oregon boy - who is possessed of seemingly inexhaustible energy and introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. And certainly not after Mitchell Grammaticus - devotee of Patti Smith and Thomas Merton - resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. The triangle in this amazing and delicious novel about a generation beginning to grow up is age old, and completely fresh and surprising. With devastating wit, irony and an abiding understanding and love for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides resuscitates the original energies of the novel while creating a story so contemporary that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

Literary

Knopf Canada

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