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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Modern fiction sometimes seems like a reclamation project. The house of narrative has let in some unruly tenants in recent decades. The surrealists and absurdists left everything in disarray. The cyberpunks held wild parties and didn't clean up the mess. The stream-of- consciousness folks didn't pay attention to the structure, and it started leaking. Fi…

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