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Who is this book for? Readers interested in character-driven narratives about love and friendship in a college setting.

Topics LoveFriendshipSelf-actualization
MoodReflective, Romantic
Female protagonist
RomanceCentral to the Plot
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing – that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.

Language

en

Published on

04/12/2012

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780007441303

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