Description: One of the most acclaimed literary novels of 2011 is now in paperback. Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet" ("Newsweek").
Brief description: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by FSG to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex (FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. The Marriage Plot (FSG, 2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. His collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint, is from FSG (2017). Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton.
Review Quotes:
"Eugenides's ability to reinvent the timeless tale of love and soul-searching is swoon-worthy." --Vanity Fair
"I gorged myself on The Marriage Plot." --Geoff Dyer "A masterful storyteller." --The Seattle Times "Audacious and moving." --Time "Extremely ambitious...surprising, and propulsive." --Chicago Sun-Times "Deeply humane and elegantly constructed." --NPR "The finale of The Marriage Plot is unexpected, beautiful, and---Dare we hope?---timeless." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer "A master of voice." --The Washington Post "Wry, engaging, and beautifully constructed." --The New York Times Book Review