What might it mean that one of the best-selling new novels revolves around a Quaker…

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What might it mean that one of the best-selling new nov­els revolves around a Quaker plot line? Yes indeed, “The Mar­riage Plot” by “Vir­gin Sui­cides” author Jef­frey Eugenides appar­ently does. I’ve ordered it and will try to write up impres­sions too, Accord­ing to this piece in Com­men­tary, another cur­rent book has a Quaker theme. Curi­ous. #books #eugenides

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Jef­frey Eugenides « Com­men­tary Mag­a­zine
I am writ­ing about Jef­frey Eugenides’s mag­i­cal novel The Mar­riage Plot at greater length else­where, but a remark­able coin­ci­dence — an instant of serendip­ity in lit­er­ary his­tory — struck me upon re…

  • https://plus.google.com/108214831720548889344 N. Jeanne Burns

    I did not know this, and The Mar­riage Plot is in my pile of books to read. Just as I leave Quak­erism, it shows up everywhere…

  • https://plus.google.com/118137693598946900921 Mar­tin Kelley

    Maybe you’re just two steps ahead of the Zeit­geist? A cou­ple years from now we’ll see a sequel to the Mar­riage Plot–a com­mer­cial fail­ure that details a thou­sand lit­tle cuts of frus­tra­tion in the protagonist’s life, lol!