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Three college graduates in the early 1980s face love, ambition and illness
2011Steady paceThoughtful
What it is about
In 1982, Madeleine Hanna graduates from Brown University and finds herself in a love triangle with Leonard, a brilliant but troubled student, and Mitchell, a religion major who loves her. The story combines campus life with a discussion of classic novels about marriage.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like intellectual campus novels.
What you will get
A well-crafted novel about love and books.
The Marriage Plot Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Literary Fiction · Love triangle · College · Literature
Length
406 pages · ≈ 12 h
More about this book
Characters
Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead and Mitchell Grammaticus.
Setting
Brown University and later Europe and India, in the early 1980s.
What makes it different
A modern novel that plays with the old marriage plot.
Feel
Smart, warm and bookish.
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