The Marriage Plot / A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides
A Novel
KORTE INHOUD
It's the early 1980's - the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafes on College Hill, 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 Madeline tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy - suddenly turns up in a semantics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus ...
As Madeline tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy - suddenly turns up in a semantics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus ...
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2011Uitgever: Farrar, Strauss and GirouxTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0374533253ISBN-13: 9780374533250Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2011, 406pp, (grote) paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Eugenides, Jeffrey] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: The Marriage Plot / A Novel]
