![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. All three are about to graduate from Brown University in 1982.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Marriage Plot Author Jeffrey Eugenides Mitchell is a religious scholar from Detroit who travels to India to work with Mother Teresa and Leonard is a brilliant philosophy student and a manic-depressive. Madeleine is an ambitious English major studying semiotics. His new novel, The Marriage Plot, involves a romantic triangle among three college students. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola. But I did want to traffic in the same ideas."Įugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. I didn't think it was possible to write a Jane Austen novel now, and in fact, it isn't. ![]() "I couldn't, being an American born in 1960. "I envy writers who came from a world where social constrictions were still normative and they could still write marriage plots," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Writer Jeffrey Eugenides laments the fact that he was born too late to write a novel about marriage in the style of writers like Jane Austen and Henry James. Eugenides graduated from Brown University in 1983. ![]() Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola, and his 2002 novel, Middlesex, won a Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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