It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides
   
Jeffrey Eugenides   Name:
Jeffrey Eugenides
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
April 13, 1960
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