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Middlesex
- Paperback, 529 pages
The Marriage Plot
- Hardcover, 406 pages
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National Book Critics Speak: Best Books Of The Year
March 7, 2012 On Thursday evening, the National Book Critics Circle will announce the winners in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. Browse the five fiction finalists.
Best Books Of 2011
Year-End Fiction Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011
December 14, 2011 2011 was a terrific year for fiction — both from first-time novelists and much-decorated veterans. Maureen Corrigan's recommendations range from Karen Russell's dazzling debut, to David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, to what may be the Sept. 11 novel.
Author Interviews
A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst
October 11, 2011 Jeffrey Eugenides' third novel, The Marriage Plot, charts the lives of three young adults as they finish college, fall in love and navigate the real world after graduating from Brown University in 1982. Eugenides, also a Brown alum, based some of the novel on his own experiences directly after college.
Book Reviews
'Marriage Plot': More Than An Ivy League Love Story
October 11, 2011 Middlesex is a hard act to follow, but Jeffrey Eugenides' latest is a sly, meta-fictional love triangle. Eugenides both satirizes and empathizes with his young intellectual characters' mix of pretentiousness, urgency and earnestness.
Author Interviews
Eugenides Spins A Modern Kind Of 'Marriage Plot'
October 5, 2011 Madeleine, Mitchell and Leonard are about to graduate from Brown University when they get caught in a love triangle worthy of Jane Austen. In his latest book, Middlesex author Jeffrey Eugenides brings the classic Victorian marriage plot to a modern American college campus.
Summer Books 2008: Excerpts
Excerpt: 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'
February 13, 2008 Like a great mix tape, this collection of stories is inspired and personal, a conceptually coherent gathering of seemingly disparate pieces that relies on Jeffrey Eugenides' artful curatorship to make it resonate as a whole.
Author Interviews
'My Mistress's Sparrow' Gives Love a Bad Name
February 13, 2008 Writer Jeffrey Eugenides, who edited the new anthology, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, takes an unorthodox look at love. He explains how the stories in this collection revolve around voyeuristic longing or disenchanted entanglement.
'Middlesex' Author Jeffrey Eugenides
August 3, 2007 Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitizer Prize-winning novel Middlesex has been on the bestseller list since its publication; it's now available in paperback. Eugenides is also the author of The Virgin Suicides, which was adapted into a feature film.
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Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
