The Marriage Plot
Encyclopedia
The Marriage Plot is a 2011
novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides
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—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.
, essayist and critic William Deresiewicz
wrote, "'The Marriage Plot' is a new departure...intimate in tone and scale." He continued, "It’s about what Eugenides’s books are always about, no matter how they differ: the drama of coming of age...It possesses the texture and pain of lived experience." The book was described by Carlin Romano
in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "the most entertaining campus novel since Wolfe's
I Am Charlotte Simmons
."
2011 in literature
The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.*Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...
novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
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Summary
The story concerns three college friends from Brown UniversityBrown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.
Reception
The novel was well-received by critics. In The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...
, essayist and critic William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz , an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008, is a widely published literary critic. His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in The Nation, The American Scholar, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times...
wrote, "'The Marriage Plot' is a new departure...intimate in tone and scale." He continued, "It’s about what Eugenides’s books are always about, no matter how they differ: the drama of coming of age...It possesses the texture and pain of lived experience." The book was described by Carlin Romano
Carlin Romano
Carlin Romano is a critic-at-large for the The Chronicle of Higher Education and a lecturer in Philosophy and Media Theory at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication...
in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "the most entertaining campus novel since Wolfe's
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University, closely modeled after Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University...
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