The Marriage Plot

Resumen del libro

Named a Best Book of the Year by
The New York Times Book Review NPR The New Republic Salon The Seattle Times Houston Chronicle The Miami Herald Publisher's Weekly

"Remind s us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce?

It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, 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 Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes---the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Jeffrey Eugenides x{0026}lt;/strong (Detroit, 1960) estudió en las universidades de Brown y Stanford. Es autor de tres aclamadas novelas, todas ellas publicadas por Anagrama: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Las vírgenes suicidas, x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong llevada al cine por Sofia Coppola: Extraordinaria novela, las hermanas Lisbon son a la literatura de los noventa lo que el Holden Caulfield de x{0026}lt;em El guardián entre el centeno x{0026}lt;/em fue a la de los cincuenta (Sergi Sánchez, x{0026}lt;em El Mundo); x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Middlesex,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong que obtuvo el Pulitzer 2003 y fue considerada una de las mejores novelas de las últimas décadas: Sobresaliente, poderosísima (Antonio Fontana, x{0026}lt;em ABC);x{0026}lt;/em Magnífica saga familiar, una novela deslumbrante (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); Colosal (David Guzmán, x{0026}lt;em La Razón); x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La trama nupcial: x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong Fino y empático... Eugenides vuelve para reclamar su lugar entre los maestros artesanos de la (gran) novela (americana) (Rubén Pujol, x{0026}lt;em Rockdelux); x{0026}lt;/em Una luminosa meditación acerca de la distancia que media entre la literatura y la vida (Eduardo Lago, x{0026}lt;em El País).x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/p