They boasted unique premises and voices, which Eugenides handled adeptly. His first two novels have become classics of the contemporary, perhaps because both seemed wholly their own. The billboard treatment (which he seems embarrassed by) attests to Eugenides’ strange rock-star status - strange for an author, especially so for an author of literary fiction - which cannot be explained by the success of the Virgin Suicides, the awards for Middlesex, or the many millions of copies he has now sold. Given Jeffrey Eugenides’ bestseller status, the Sofia Coppola adaptation, his Pulitzer Prize, his image, striding manfully (okay, he’s carrying his glasses and a Moleskine), plastered on a billboard in Times Square, one can forget that his most recent novel, The Marriage Plot, is only his third.
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