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The marriage plot

Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

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Main Author:	Eugenides, Jeffrey
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction. Literature > Appreciation > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction. Coming-of-age fiction.
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Summary:	Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.
Physical Description:	406 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780374203054 (hbk.) 0374203059 (hbk.)
Author Notes:	Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 8, 1960. He received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in English and creative writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to in 1993 and was made into a feature film. His other works include Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Marriage Plot. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. (Bowker Author Biography)