Plot https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/plot/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:29:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Plot https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/plot/ 32 32 16720591 What might it mean that one of the best-selling new novels revolves around a Quaker… https://www.quakerranter.org/what-might-it-mean-that-one-of-the-best-selling-new-novels-the-marriage-plot/ https://www.quakerranter.org/what-might-it-mean-that-one-of-the-best-selling-new-novels-the-marriage-plot/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:33:18 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/2012/01/what-might-it-mean-that-one-of-the-best-selling-new-novels-the-marriage-plot/ 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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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…

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