The Marriage Plot / Middlesex / The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

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 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 essential reading for any lover of great fiction.

1220 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2013

About the author

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.

Reviews

[Sammi]

I found this set at Half Price books for $15. Nearly shrieked. It is easily my favorite thing on my bloated bookshelf.

[Elsa Taylor-Lillquist]

Okay this book was really good. It was a little depressing like obviously but it was an interesting book. It was just such an interesting take on observation and like the object of women and the way boys interpret women. And also the idea of love and how you can love people you don’t know. Like at first I was like some of the thought process from the author is gross but I then I thought it as like him being honest and stark and not showing the girls’ thoughts both to show how you don’t really know what’s going on with others, but also to show the things that drove their decision simultaneously.

[Anne-Marie Scaplehorn]

Have read The Virgin Suicides and, wow, then I read it again straight after. It was not just the story and plot (both excellent in my opinion), but the beauty of the writing and the use of words which I enjoyed. Vocabulary enhancer, Mr. Eugenides, you certainly are - I had to look up words all the time, and I thank you for the education. I am now heading for The Marriage Plot and Middlesex and anything else I can find by Mr. E.