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Wednesday
October 26, 2011
7:30 pm

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Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.
Submit questions for Jeffrey Eugenides here.

About Jeffrey Eugenides

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, who is “blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), received rave reviews in 1993 for his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, which became an international bestseller and was made into a feature film by Sophia Coppola. A decade later, Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his blockbuster novel Middlesex, a three generation family saga centered around an hermaphrodite of Greek descent. The New York Times Book Review described it as “expansive and radiantly generous. . . deliriously American,” and the Los Angeles Times Book Review called it “a towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.” Middlesex, considered one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times Book Review, sold three million copies, won the Ambassador Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Eugenides comes to Houston to read from his highly anticipated third novel, The Marriage Plot, coming out in October 2011. Playing off the theme of marriage as a plot device in Victorian literature, the novel centers on a contemporary romantic triangle, brilliantly and humorously explicating the joy and heartache of young love.

Links:

Article from The Guardian about The Marriage Plot

A conversation between Jeffrey Eugenides and his editor Jonathan Galassi about The Marriage Plot

A video of Jeffrey Eugenides talking about The Marriage Plot at Book Expo America 2011

Interview with Jeffrey Eugenides on The Marriage Plot in The New Yorker

New York Times article on the autobiographical nature of Middlesex

"Extreme Solitude," short fiction piece by Jeffrey Eugenides published in The New Yorker