Jeffrey Eugenides
Author
Description
Madeleine Hanna, writing her senior thesis on the marriage plot of the great English novels, enrolls in a semiotics course and falls in love with Leonard Bankhead, a charismatic loner, but Mitchell Grammaticus also resurfaces obsessed with the idea Madeleine is destined to be his mate.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
Series
Criterion collection volume 920
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontaine convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.