The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 10-11-2011
Jeffrey Eugenides,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 10-11-2011
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780374203054
Publish date: 11-10-2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition language: English
As a former English major, I’m a big fan of books about academia, especially if it’s about other English majors. I finally picked up Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot after finding it in hard cover at a book warehouse sale for super cheap. The novel primarily follows Madeline, a college graduate...
Aaaand I'm flouncing. It's just b-o-r-i-n-g.I don't normally flounce books, so that's... sad.
Such a brilliant novel about that first year out of college. It's an update of the classic form in the title, it's a story about growing up, it's a book about books.... and I feel like, for better or worse, Eugenides wrote this book for me. It is rare that I feel so deeply connected (even to the b...