American Pulitzer prize-winning novelist and short story writer Jeffrey Eugenides published his latest book The Marriage Plot in October, 2011.
Of Greek and Irish descent, Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides (1993), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola and Middlesex (2002), which won him the Pulitzer Prize.
The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), has been called by Carlin Romano in the Chronicle of Higher Education “the most entertaining campus novel since Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons.
The novel begins on graduation day at Brown University in 1982 following the lives of the three main protagonists: Madeleine, a self-confessed bibliophile that upon finding an unloved book would ‘read it for a little while to make the sad old book better’; Mitchell, the emotional and spiritual one that ponders over a girl’s posterior so much it ‘gave him the weird feeling that it was staring back at him’; and Leonard, whose sharp wit, confidence and success with the ladies makes him the envy of many, including Mitchell.
The three of them form a most atypical love triangle and travel from New Jersey, to New York, to Paris, to Athens, to India; each location providing it’s own distinct colour to what is very much, a coming of age tale.
Jeffrey Eugenides is widely recognized as one of the top American writers of today. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960, he took his undergraduate degree at Brown University in 1983. He later earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Standford University.
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