The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation

• ISBN10: 0374203059
• ISBN13: 9780374203054
• Publish Date: 11 October 2011 (first published 3 October 2011)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 14 June 2023
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[clementine]

Self-indulgent and pretentious. The characters are a) a bland female sex fantasy, b) a shallowly religious loser who is predictably and irritatingly obsessed with the woman, and c) the woman's manic-depressive, misogynistic, and emotionally abusive boyfriend. Throw in some references to semiotic theory and second-wave feminism (all which is explored on a purely theoretical basis) and you've got yourself a really tedious novel. A lot of the prose is quite enjoyable, but the essential story is irritating. The character of Madeleine was blatantly written by a man. Less enjoyable the further in I got.