![]() ![]() The Marriage Plot tells Madeleine, Mitchell, and Leonard's stories, views the world and their interconnectedness through each of their eyes, and gets fully immersed in their happinesses and challenges. Even traveling around the world after college, exploring the history and philosophy of different religions, can't seem to shake her from his mind. Meanwhile, Madeleine's friend, Mitchell Grammaticus, is obsessed with her and believes that she is his true soulmate. ![]() ![]() Widening her horizons in her senior year, she takes a semiotics class, which causes her to challenge her beliefs and think more philosophically, but she also meets Leonard Bankhead, one of her classmates, a highly intelligentand troubledbiology major. English major Madeleine Hanna, who grew up privileged in the New Jersey suburbs, is in love with romantic novels by Jane Austen and George Eliot, and is truly in love with love. It's the early 1980s at Brown University. In my opinion, this is a terrific story led by three complex characters, but from time to time, it gets mired in its own intellectualism. His new book, The Marriage Plot, has been hailed by critics as one of the year's best, although reaction from readers has been somewhat mixed. It's been nearly 10 years since Jeffrey Eugenides published a novelhis last book, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002, so one could imagine that was a pretty hard act to follow. ![]()
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