Leonard Bankhead – charismatic loner and college Darwinist – suddenly turns up in a seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. 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. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. “There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” Anthony Trollope
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |