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I was never completely lost in this novel as I read it, in part because Eugenides is a little sloppy on details (a character has spent a certain amount of money on one page and a different amount on another without making additional purchases; a character talks on the phone for "a few minutes" and more than an hour of time disappears; etc.) and in part because of the jumping perspective. Most of the book is from Madeleine's point of view, with many sections from Mitch ...more
I was never completely lost in this novel as I read it, in part because Eugenides is a little sloppy on details (a character has spent a certain amount of money on one page and a different amount on another without making additional purchases; a character talks on the phone for "a few minutes" and more than an hour of time disappears; etc.) and in part because of the jumping perspective. Most of the book is from Madeleine's point of view, with many sections from Mitch ...more
This is a post feminist take on the "marriage plot". The story follows three Brown seniors from the class of 1982. The woman, Maddie, has options not available to Jane Austin's protagonists. On graduation day they contemplate graduate school, travel, and fellowships as well as marriage. Eugenides has a warm and easy tone. I very much appreciate his sympathetic treatment of the maniac/depressive mental illness and it's impact on the friends of the afflicted. I found his treatment of the details o
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