It follows the novel's plot for the first two acts, then moves to explore how these themes are relevant today.

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As was oft observed in the wee hours of the morning, the unfolding drama of last night would have been rejected as a too-far-out plot for a novel.

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It is the gentle yet penetrating lucidity of Mr Eugenides's writing that makes a slightly humdrum plot into so involving a novel.

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It reads like a plot from a Charles Dickens novel.

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Jarrold and his screenwriters, Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, have decided to treat the life of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as if it were itself the plot of an undiscovered Austen novel, albeit a second-rate one.

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This latest novel broaches many topics but has a rather tenuous plot.

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Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.

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Hamilton has said the seed for her plot came from the 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Light in the Piazza, and the original novel by Elizabeth Spencer on which that was based.

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