The Marriage Plot
By Jeffrey Eugenides
(Large Print Press, Paperback, Large Print, 9781594135576, 711pp.)
Publication Date: September 2012
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Categories: Literary
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the November 2011 Indie Next ListJeffrey 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. More at NPR.org
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- The opening scene features a litany of the books Madeleine loves. What were your first impressions of her, based on her library? How are her beliefs about love transformed throughout the novel?












