Status
Available
Genres
Collection
Publication
Thorndike Press (2011), Edition: Large Print, 695 pages
Description
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.
Media reviews
The novel isn’t really concerned with matrimony or the stories we tell about it, and the title, the opening glance at Madeleine’s library and the intermittent talk of books come across as attempts to impose an exogenous meaning. The novel isn’t really about love either, except secondarily.
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It’s about what Eugenides’s books are always about, no matter how they differ: the drama of coming of age. Show Less
No one’s more adept at channeling teenage angst than Jeffrey Eugenides. Not even J. D. Salinger.
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2013)
Audie Award (Finalist — 2012)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2011)
The Morning News Tournament of Books (Quarterfinalist — 2012)
The Economist Best Books (2011.12)
Indies Choice Book Award (Winner — Adult Fiction — 2012)
Salon Book Award (Fiction — 2011)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Fiction — 2012)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Fiction — 2011)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Fiction — 2011)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2011)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2011)
Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Fiction — 2011)
The A.V. Club best books (2011)
Original publication date
2011-10-11 (1e édition originale américaine, Straus and Giroux)
3013-01-03 (1e traduction et édition française, Editions de l'Olivier)