The Marriage Plot
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| Author(s) | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides.
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Summary [edit]
The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.[1]
Reception [edit]
The novel was well received by critics. William Deresiewicz wrote, "'The Marriage Plot' is a new departure...intimate in tone and scale.... It’s about what Eugenides’s books are always about, no matter how they differ: the drama of coming of age.... It possesses the texture and pain of lived experience."[2] Carlin Romano called it "the most entertaining campus novel since Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons."[3]
Awards and honors [edit]
- 2011 Salon Book Award (Fiction)[4]
References [edit]
- ^ Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Marriage Plot. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. ISBN 978-0-374-20305-4 WorldCat
- ^ William Deresiewicz, "Jeffrey Eugenides on Liberal Arts Graduates in Love," The New York Times Book Review, October 16, 2011.
- ^ Carlin Romano, "A Campus Novel about Leaving Campus Behind", Chronicle of Higher Education Sept.4, 2011.
- ^ Laura Miller. "The best fiction of 2011", "The best nonfiction of 2011" - Salon, Dec 8, 2011.
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