Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Title: The Marriage Plot Place Published: New York, USA Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Grioux Year Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 406 Price: Php 720.00 Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell The Long and Winding Tale of three Graduates (a.k.a. The Bizarre Love Triangle) In this follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Middlesex , Jeffrey Eugenides explores the 19th century “marriage plot” and how it fits in to a contemporary love story. Unfortunately, I haven’t read many works by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and other English novelists who are the purveyors of this literary trope. This, coupled with my lack of knowledge on theology, philosophy, and literary criticism, among other subjects, made finishing the novel a chore, despite plenty memorable lines and flashes of brilliance. The Marriage Plot follows the story of Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, and Mitchell Grammaticus as they graduate from college and join the real world. Hanna is an Eng...
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