Omtale fra Den Norske Bokdatabasen
USA, tidlig på åttitallet. Madeleine er litteraturstudent på universitetet. Mens medstudentene er mest opptatt av å diskutere Derrida og plukke klassikerne fra hverandre, går hun motsatt vei. Madeleine skriver oppgave om Jane Austen og George Eliot og leser helst 1800-tallsromaner om kysekledde unge kvinner i gifteklar alder, med minst to unge beilere. Fiksjonen innhenter virkeligheten da to veldig forskjellige menn blander seg inn i livet hennes.
Omtale fra forlaget
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.
Utgivelsesår 2012
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780007460496
EAN 9780007460496
Omtalt tid 1980-1989
Omtalt sted USA
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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Er vanligvis ikke så begeistra for amerikansk litteratur og college og narkotika, men denne fortjener Pulitzerprisen. Tittelen henspeiler på den ene hovedpersonens fascinasjon for kvinnelige forfattere som skrev mellom årene1800 og 1900. Om hun gifter seg senere i boka vites ikke, men det er kandidater. Egentlig har boka 3 hovedpersoner, nevnte Madeleine og to av hennes kjærester; Matthew og Leonard. Jeg leser den norske utgaven.
Madeleine had the book in her lap. With her right hand she was eating peanut butter straight from the jar. The spoon fit perfectly against the curve of her upper palate, allowing the peanut butter to dissolve creamily against her tongue.
They went to a café for breakfast. Leonard was on his best behavior, pulling out her chair, buying her a Paris Match from the newsstand, offering her a brioche from the basket.
The speed with which he left the railways office and went about buying provisions for his trip was like that of someone making a getaway. He bought bottled water, mandarins, a chocolate bar, a package of biscuits, and a hunk of strangely crumbly cheese. He still ahdn't had lunch, so he stopped at a restaurant for a bowl of vegetable curry and parathi.
The restaurant on the corner, catering to backpacker tastes, served banana pancakes and hamburgers made from water buffalo.
"Listen, a girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet."