![]() ![]() It was well-written with a blend of humor, empathy, and psychological insight that I found impressive. I loved this book for a variety of reasons. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in “his most powerful novel yet” ( Newsweek As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. 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. 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. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. Synopsis (from Amazon): 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? ![]()
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