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The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by the American writer, Jeffrey Eugenides. The novel …

Review of 'The Marriage Plot' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This could have been so much better. Disappointingly glib and rather sexist, with a somewhat cheaply earned sense of 80s academic zeitgeist that keeps it readable. The portrait of David Foster Wallace's manic depression is the only really touching thing in here: the main character, Madeleine, is unpleasantly shallow and might as well be living in a Herman Wouk novel.