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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

The Marriage Plot

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    A Paperback / softback by Jeffrey Eugenides

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 4 September 2012
      ISBN-13 9781250014764
      978-1250014764
      ISBN-10 125001476X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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