The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Marc Notes: Copyright date 2011.; Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead. At the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.. Review Quotes: A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of 2011 - A "Miami Herald" Favorite Book of 2011 - A "Houston Chronicle" Best Book of 2011 - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - "Eugenides's ability to reinvent the timeless tale of love and soul-searching is swoon-worthy."---"Vanity Fair" "I gorged myself on "The Marriage Plot"."---Geoff Dyer "A masterful storyteller."---"The Seattle Times" "Audacious and moving."---"Time" "Extremely ambitious...surprising, and propulsive."---"Chicago Sun-Times" "Deeply humane and elegantly constructed."---NPR "The finale of "The Marriage Plot "is unexpected, beautiful, and---Dare we hope?---timeless."---"The Cleveland Plain Dealer" "A master of voice."---"The Washington Post" "Great serious romantic fun."---"Chicago Tribune" "Wry, engaging, and beautifully constructed."---"The New York Times Book Review ""A grand romance in the Austen tradition."---"USA Today" "A remarkable achievement."---"The Independent" (London) "You'll never want "The Marriage Plot "to end."---"Elle"Review Quotes: "New York Times" BestsellerA "New York Times" Editors' ChoiceA "New York Times" Notable Book "Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary."--"The New York Times Book Review"" ""This extraordinary, liquidly written evocation of love's mad rush and inevitable failures will feed your mind as you rapidly turn the pages. Highly recommended." --"Library Journal "(starred review) "Eugenides'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." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "His characteristically deliberate, researched realization of place and personality serve him well, and he strikes perfectly tuned chords.... Eugenides realizes the novel whose dismantling hisReview Quotes: "Eugenides's ability to reinvent the timeless tale of love and soul-searching is swoon-worthy."---"Vanity Fair" - "I gorged myself on "The Marriage Plot.""---Geoff Dyer - "A masterful storyteller."---The Seattle Times - "Audacious and moving."---Time - "Extremely ambitious...surprising, and propulsive."---Chicago Sun-Times - "Deeply humane and elegantly constructed."---NPR - "The finale of The Marriage Plot is unexpected, beautiful, and---Dare we hope?---timeless."---The Cleveland Plain Dealer - "A master of voice."---The Washington Post - "Great serious romantic fun."---Chicago Tribune - "Wry, engaging, and beautifully constructed."---The New York Times Book Review - "A remarkable achievement."---The Independent (London) - "You'll never want The Marriage Plot to end."---ElleBiographical Note: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was published by FSG to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Middlesex "(FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicis. Brief Description: Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead. At the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny. Publisher Marketing: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by"The New York Times Book Review - "NPR" - The New Republic - Salon - The Seattle Times - Houston Chronicle - The Miami Herald - Publisher's Weekly" "Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "A grand romance in the Austen tradition."--"USA Today"Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes---the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet" ("Newsweek"). Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/09/2012 pg. 24 (EAN 9781250014764, Paperback) People Weekly 09/10/2012 pg. 49 (EAN 9781250014764, Paperback) People 03/19/2012 pg. 59 (EAN 9781410444530, Hardcover) Audio File 10/01/2011 pg. 34 (EAN 9781427213082, Compact Disc) Publishers Weekly 11/28/2011 (EAN 9781427213082, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Audio File Bst Fiction Classic 12/01/2011 pg. 24 (EAN 9781427213082, Compact Disc) Audio File 12/01/2011 pg. 49 (EAN 9781427213082, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal 05/15/2011 pg. 66 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2011 pg. 66 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2011 pg. 23 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2011 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 08/01/2011 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 83 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) - *Starred Review People Weekly 09/26/2011 pg. 66 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 10/14/2011 pg. 120 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 10/23/2011 pg. 30 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) People Weekly 11/07/2011 pg. 55 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) New York Review of Books 11/24/2011 pg. 65 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 10/14/2011 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 22 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 11/18/2011 pg. 107 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 11/25/2011 pg. 76 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Kirkus Best Books 11/15/2011 pg. 2065 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 48 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 25 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2012 pg. 9 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 02/03/2012 pg. 29 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2011 pg. 56 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2012 pg. 28 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 266 (EAN 9780374203054, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Eugenides, Jeffrey Author of the Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.