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Eugenides’ first book‚ The Virgin Suicides‚ earned him comparisons to such writers as William Wharton and Alice McDermott. Eugenides has received a Whiting Award‚ a Guggenheim Fellowship‚ and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He was named by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best American novelists under 40.
It’s the early 1980s. The country is in a deep recession‚ and life after college is harder than ever. In the College Hill cafés‚ wised-up kids inhale Derrida and listen to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna‚ dutiful English major‚ is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot‚ purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels …
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