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A young woman and two men at the end of their studies. Madeline loves Leonard. Leonard and Mitchell love Madeline. None of the three know the way to happiness...
In the early 1980s. The United States is in deep recession, and life after college is tougher than ever for the young. At the cafés of College Hill, suspicious kids gulp down Derrida and listen to Talking Heads. However, Madeline Hanna, the conscientious English literature student, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, who highlighted marriage (matchmaking in general) as a major issue, placing it at the core of the most important English novels.
While Madeline tries to understand why "it has become ridiculous to read writers like Cheever or Updike, who wrote about the suburbs in which Madeline and most of her friends grew up, to the detriment of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about the anal deflowering of virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life intervenes, in the form of two very different young men.
Leonard Bankhead - a talented loner and college Darwinist - suddenly appears in a semiotics seminar, and Madeline soon finds herself embroiled in a highly charged romantic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend, Mitchell Grammaticus - who studies Christian mysticism and generally behaves oddly - comes back into the picture, with the obsessive belief that Madeline is destined by fate to be his partner.
In the following year, as the protagonists of this captivating novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events pressure them to redefine everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeline move to a biology lab in Cape Cod, but they cannot escape the secret that is responsible for Leonard's seemingly inexhaustible energy and mood swings.
And Mitchell, traveling the world to get Madeline out of his mind, faces fundamental questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Have the great love stories of the nineteenth century died? Or can there be a new story, written for today, that brings to the forefront feminism, sexual liberation, the premarital contract, divorce, all these significant issues?
With striking humor and wit, as well as an overarching understanding and love for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the forces that inspire the Novel, weaving a story that is so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the secret diary of our very own lives. Nine years after "Middlesex," the "international Greek" Jeffrey Eugenides returns with a major novel that confirms his status as one of the greatest writers of our time. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2012.
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- Author
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- The Marriage Plot
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- Novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 622
- Release Date
- 3/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601644189
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