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Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on his new novel, in which he learned to "do" character.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenIn his new novel,
The Marrige Plot: A Novel
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), characters fall in love, marry and quarrel just the way they do in the classic "marriage" novels from Austen to James. But don't we, as readers, have to fall in love with the characters too?
Jeffrey Eugenides describes this as the novel in which he learned to "do" character, and he tells what he learned. Eugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Middlesex and
The Virgin Suicides.
Read an excerpt from The Marriage Plot.
