jeffrey eugenides

<p>Fresh Complaint</p>

<p>AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR</p>

<p>The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.</p>

<p>Kendall has failed as a poet, and now embezzlement seems like his next-best career option. Rebecca has failed to find customers for her mouse figurines, now the bailiffs are coming for her husband. Diane has failed to meet ‘the one’, but is thrilled to have found her path to motherhood through a turkey baster.</p>

<p>With his trademark humour, compassion and complex understanding of what it is to be human, Jeffrey Eugenides’ stories elevate muddling through into something triumphant.</p>

<p>The Marriage Plot</p>

<p>The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.</p>

<p>Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.</p>

<p>Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing – that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.</p>

<p>But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.</p>