The marriage plot
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780007460496; 9780007441303
Subjects: Women college students; Fiction
Description: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot: purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more Bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life, despite her good looks, hadn't lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course "to see what all the fuss is about," and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with Leonard Morton - charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Oregon boy resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London: Fourth Estate, 2011.