LITERATURE + LECTURES

Inprint presents the 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  Wednesday, October 26  the series features Jeffrey Eugenides, in the Cullen Theater, Wortham Center.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, who is “blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), received rave reviews in 1993 for his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, which became an international bestseller and was made into a feature film by Sophia Coppola. A decade later, Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his blockbuster novel Middlesex, a three generation family saga centered around an hermaphrodite of Greek descent. The New York Times Book Review described it as “expansive and radiantly generous. . . deliriously American,” and the Los Angeles Times Book Review called it “a towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.” Middlesex, considered one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times Book Review, sold three million copies, won the Ambassador Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Eugenides comes to Houston to read from his highly anticipated third novel, The Marriage Plot, coming out in October 2011. Playing off the theme of marriage as a plot device in Victorian literature, the novel centers on a contemporary romantic triangle, brilliantly and humorously explicating the joy and heartache of young love.