The powerHouse Arena invites you to
the paperback launch for

The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Friday, September 21, 7–9 PM
Drinks will be served
Tickets: $5
Online ticket sales for the event are now closed.
A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Doors open at 5:30pm.
Reminder: seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
All ticketholders receive $5 off the price of The Marriage Plot.
Jeffrey Eugenides' ONLY NYC appearance. Don't miss!

The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049

powerHouse is beyond excited to host Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author (and sometimes Vogue model) Jeffrey Eugenidies as he celebrates the paperback launch of his bestseller The Marriage Plot.

PLEASE NOTE:
Those who purchase copies of The Marriage Plot or Eugenides' backlist titles from powerHouse will be given priority in the signing line. Upon purchase, these customers will receive a number that indicates their place in line. Passes will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis—customers can pre-order the paperback or his backlist in the store or online before the event, if they wish. Customers without passes will be asked to wait at the end of the line.

About The Marriage Plot:

Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce?

It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes—the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet." —Newsweek

About the Author:

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by FSG to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex (FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. His most recent novel, The Marriage Plot (FSG, 2011) was a #1 national bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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