the last book I ever read (The Marriage Plot, excerpt three of five)

from Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot:

Thurston was nodding his head in a way that somehow didn't suggest agreement. "Yeah, O.K.," he said. "Handke's real mother killed herself. She died in a real world and Handke felt real grief or whatever. But that's not what this book's about. Books aren't about 'real life.' Books are about other books."