David Pittu
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Language
English
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The long-awaited new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides.
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
—Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
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...
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
—Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
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...