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Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
Released: 11/10/2011
Fourth Estate
Madeleine is absorbed in writing her thesis on Jane Austen's inevitable happy endings when she finds herself at the centre of a love triangle. This is a shrewd observation on graduate life and relationships in the wake of female empowerment from the Pulitzer-winning author of The Virgin Suicides.
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80 %
The Telegraph“Immensely readable, funny and heartfelt...” Madeleine unfortunately gets less, not more, interesting as the novel continues. By contrast, Leonard’s manic depression is involving, and Mitchell becomes a curmudgeonly hero...
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70 %
The New York Times“A story that steadily gains in emotional intensity...” This novel carefully uses cultural references to conjure the 1980s, that era when hipsters wore Fiorucci cowboy boots and well-to-do parents outfitted their cosseted offspring with Trinitron TVs and Saab convertibles...
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80 %
this is london“He shows a unique ability to tackle potentially difficult subjects...” Its main success is the extended depiction of the three young figures on the cusp of adulthood, grappling with the wider world, and the oddly stressful weightlessness of a phase before life hardens and takes shape...
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90%
The Independent“A light, skilfully handled free-indirect style...” Eugenides's response to the difficulty of writing a marriage plot, when marriage doesn't mean much anymore, has seemingly been to acknowledge that difficulty, then soldier on and write it anyway...
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80 %
Guardian“Eugenides also pursues cogent inquiries into religion and philosophy...” The tight plotting and internalised psychology of this new novel, allied to the full sweep of ideas and social observation and quiet comedy that characterised Eugenides's earlier works, are signs of a new maturity...
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80 %
Publishers Weekly“The coming-of-age novel for a new generation...” Enigmatic professors, feminist theorists, neo-Victorians, and concerned mothers, and all of their evolving investment in ideas and ideals is such that the central argument of the book is also its solution: the old stories may be best after all...
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