Jeffrey Eugenides interview

After almost a decade of “fits and starts”, Jeffrey Eugenides has finally produced his highly anticipated third novel, The Marriage Plot.

By Kevin Rabalais In Books

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20th October, 2011

Interview

Before it became one of the most talked-about novels of the past decade and won a Pulitzer Prize, Middlesex gave Jeffrey Eugenides a fair share of distress. Already the successful author of The Virgin Suicides and several years into writing Middlesex, Eugenides put aside that fanciful multigenerational novel and its hermaphrodite narrator to begin another novel. “Because I always have a lot of fits and starts, it’s not unusual that I will start something else in that fit of despair,” says ...

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