The Marriage Plot is a romantic novel set in the 1980s. It tells the story of a love triangle between three students at Brown University: Madeleine Hanna, a literature major with a passion for the Victorian era, her boyfriend Leonard Bankhead who suffers from manic-depression, and her friend Mitchell Grammaticus whose interest in religious studies inspires him to travel the world. The main themes are literary analysis, delusion, and feminism.
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, Jeffrey Eugenides is not afraid of taking chances with his fiction, or of getting it just right. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, is a tale of five ...
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Jeffrey Eugenides