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Rent The Marriage Plot
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $20.00
Pages: 464
Synopsis
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 book MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides is a contemporary master of the novel form, and this expertise and creative fluency come to bear on THE MARRIAGE PLOT. At once stunningly constructed and invitingly transparent, this novel's cohesion and coherence--which somehow never lead to predictabilty--make it a delight to read. The title could not be more apt, for this is both a modern recasting of the prototypical Victorian novel and a meta-meditation on that fiction device and its long-running popularity: this is a love story and a book about love stories. The novel focuses on a love triangle involving college students at Brown in the 1980s--Madeleine, a lover of Victorian literature who is writing her senior thesis about marriage plots; Leonard, a moody, unpredictable young scientist; and Mitchell, a student of religion who believes he and Madeleine are soul mates. Eugenides gracefully unfolds this story of young romance across the globe and out of sequence, keeping things lively. And the ruminations on love in the contemporary moment will certainly resonate with most reflective readers.
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