The Jeffrey Eugenides Three-Book Collection: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, The Marriage Plot
This collection brings together three novels from one of America’s great modern writers.
‘The Virgin Suicides’ – Five doomed sisters and the boys who loved them from afar. A hauntingly evocative tale that became a cult hit film by Sofia Coppola.
‘Middlesex’ – Calliope Stephanides: beloved daughter, son, enigma, and the deeply human narrator of this soaring epic.
‘The Marriage Plot’ – Three flawed individuals searching for different versions of the same ideal; three separate lives drawn irrevocably together.
Illuminating and exquisitely written, in these three novels Eugenides explores the imperfections and vagaries of the human heart with unparalleled wit and insight: essential reading for any lover of great fiction.
”'Eugenides is a big and a big-hearted talent” - Jonathan Franzen
”'Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary” - New York Times
From the reviews of ‘The Virgin Suicides’: -
‘One of the finest novels in many years - a ‘Catcher in the Rye’ for our time’ Observer -
From the reviews of ‘Middlesex’: -
”'Superb … a warm and beautifully written novel that illuminates part of the human soul” - Sunday Times
From the reviews of ‘The Marriage Plot’: -
”'With breathtaking insight, Eugenides teases out the emotional truths at work here. This is a complete and complex work … this is a book about how to find somebody to love and be loved by” - The Times
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