Marriage Plot, the

Marriage Plot, the

The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.