The Marriage Plot - jeffrey eugenides

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Praise for Middlesex: 'This year's most sumptuously enjoyable book ! superb' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'This is a truly original and compelling novel, by turns sad, funny and moving' Daily Mail 'The best American novel since The Corrections ! exuberant, ambitious, deeply compassionate and wildly funny' GQ 'A transatlantic epic ! a towering achievement' Los Angeles Times 'A warm and beautifully written novel that illuminates the part of the human soul that even biology cannot reach' Sunday Times Praise for The Virgin Suicides: 'One of the finest novels -- I have read in many years! a wonderful mixture of amusement, wistfulness and contained grief' John Banville 'One of the finest novels in many years -- a Catcher in the Rye for our time' Observer 'Beautiful funny and touching ! Eugenides is a skilful craftsman and a hypnotic storyteller' Jay McInerney 'Entire and unstoppable! a sparkling work' The Times 'Eugenides's superb third novel is his most mature to date, the work of an author who has achieved a new gravity after the audacious brilliance of his earlier work!Eugenides looks poised to become a writer on a par with Updike and Cheever as an anatomist of contemporary American matters' -- Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times 'The characterisation is remarkable. Leonard, Madeline and Mitchell, as well as all those of the periphery, are constructed with patience and artistry, with the result that they are completely believable and always capable of surprising the reader with breathtaking insight, Eugenides teases out the emotional truth at work here. This is a complete and complex work!If you were ever young and thought that you knew what you wanted, if you ever imagined that no one else could ever feel such intensity of emotions as you, if you ever had your dreams dashed and your heart broken, then this is the book for you.' Sarah Vine, The Times The tight plotting and internalised psychology of this new novel, allied to the full sweep of ideas and social observation and quiet comedy that characterised Eugenides's earlier works, are signs of a new maturity. In the generosity and nuance of his characters and paragraphs, you are reminded of the Jonathan Franzen of The Corrections.' Tim Adams, Observer. 'It's a tender, well written, compulsively readable, essentially conventional love story.' Nat Segnit, Independent on Sunday. 'Highly enjoyable' Evening Standard. 'Masterful!Eugenides brilliantly captures the excitement of intellectual discovery and argument for its own sake' Psychologies Being Eugenides, the book is immensely readable, funny and heartfelt with instantly beguiling writing that springs effortlessly back and forth over the years's events' Daily Telegraph 'A marvellous, compulsive storyteller, richly allusive, he reminds us that while love may not always be a triumph, it follows its own wayward course to the end' Sunday Telegraph 'Erudite, smart and entertaining' Mail. '!powerful and all consuming. Forget the hearts and flowers; this is a challenging and intellectual novel about life and the intricate human relationships it weaves.' Express 'Nobody is going to accuse Jeffrey Eugenides's new novel of being insufficiently clever. It is a big book of tricks.' New Statesman