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008			120703s2011 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9781410444530
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050	0	0	_aPS3555.U4 _bM37 2011
082	0	0	_aLARP FIC EUG
100	1		_aEugenides, Jeffrey _d(, 1960-)
245	1	4	_aThe marriage plot _c/ Jeffrey Eugenides
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Thorndike Press _c, 2011.
300			_a713 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aEugenides's first novel since 2002's Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex so impressively, ambitiously breaks the mold of its predecessor that it calls for the founding of a new prize to recognize its success both as a novel-and as a Jeffrey Eugenides novel. Importantly but unobtrusively set in the early 1980s, this is the tale of Madeleine Hanna, recent Brown University English grad, and her admirer Mitchell Grammaticus, who opts out of Divinity School to walk the earth as an ersatz pilgrim. Madeleine is equally caught up, both with the postmodern vogue (Derrida, Barthes)-conflicting with her love of James, Austen, and Salinger-and with the brilliant Leonard Bankhead, whom she met in semiotics class and whose fits of manic depression jeopardize his suitability as a marriage prospect. Meanwhile, Mitchell winds up in Calcutta working with Mother Theresa's volunteers, still dreaming of Madeleine. In capturing the heady spirit of youthful intellect on the verge, Eugenides revives the coming-of-age novel for a new generation The book's fidelity to its young heroes and to a superb supporting cast of 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, but there are always new ways to complicate them.
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
650		0	_aLiterature _x--Appreciation _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSelf Realization _v--Fiction
650			_aLarge print books
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