Jeffrey Eugenides
In Jeffrey Eugenides long-awaited novel, The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus & Groux, $28.00), it's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine, a 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. When Madeleine graduates from college and enters the real world, events force her to reevaluate everything she learned in school. Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which sold more than 3 million copies and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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