Status
Available
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Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011), Edition: First Edition, 416 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.
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)
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.