The marriage plot

Description

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.

Description

Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot: purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more Bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life, despite her good looks, hadn't lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course "to see what all the fuss is about," and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with Leonard Morton - charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Oregon boy resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.

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Other Editions

• The marriage plotFourth Estate2012-01-01
• The marriage plotThorndike Press2011-01-01
• Marriage PlotFarrar, Straus & Giroux2011-01-01
• Marriage PlotHarperCollins Publishers Limited2011-01-01
• The marriage plotFourth Estate2011-01-01
• The Marriage PlotFarrar, Straus & Giroux2011-01-01