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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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ISBN13: 9780312422158 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license...records my first name simply as Cal."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Review:
"[A]n uproarious epic, at once funny and sad, about misplaced identities and family secrets....Mr. Eugenides has a keen sociological eye for 20th-century American life." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Review:
"It's a gas, a romp, the cat's pajamas....The convolutions of the novel's plot, its big gestures, its deftly handled threads of imagery and symbolism and its wealth of detail combine to produce a largely delightful read." Bethany Schneider, New York Newsday
Review:
"Middlesex isn't just a respectable sophomore effort; it's a towering achievement, and it can now be stated unequivocally that Eugenides' initial triumph wasn't a one-off or a fluke. He has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being." Jeff Turrentine, The Los Angeles Times
Review:
"[I]t's off proportionally, both section-to-section and overall, its two halves at odds, each interesting at times but neither truly satisfying, despite Eugenides's prodigious talent. Like Cal, it's damned by its own abundance, not quite sure what it wants to be." Stewart O'Nan, Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic review)
Review:
"Middlesex vibrates with wit....A virtuosic combination of elegy, sociohistorical study, and picaresque adventure: altogether irrestistable." Kirkus Reviews
Review:
"Here's your heads-up....Yes, it's that good....A novel of chance, family, sex, surgery, and America, it contains multitudes." Jonathan Miles, Men's Journal
Synopsis:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American family who travel from a tiny village. Calliope is not like other girls and must uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction.
About the Author
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work.
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sengler1, May 26, 2008 (view all comments by sengler1)
I read the Virgin Suicides first, and then ended up taking Middlesex with me for a four month stay in Costa Rica. I savored every page and made it last the whole four months I was abroad. The characters are both vulnerable and inspiring and the plot travels through 4 generations without losing cohesiveness. I LOVED this book.
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Abby, September 3, 2007 (view all comments by Abby)
A wonderfully original subject matter told in a fantastic way, I could relate with this narrator. Jeffrey Eugenides has remarkable talent. I didn't read his first book, The Virgin Suicides, but I am going to now.
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Cathy Agin, July 28, 2007 (view all comments by Cathy Agin)
Every once in a great while, a fictional character comes along that will stay with you and haunt you for the rest of your life. Eugenides has created just such a character in Cal. It isn't an easy read, but is a read that has the potential to change your life. This is what literature is all about!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780312422158
- Subtitle:
- A Novel
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Picador
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Teenagers
- Subject:
- Gender identity
- Subject:
- Hermaphroditism
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Greek Americans
- Subject:
- Detroit
- Subject:
- Grosse Pointe
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- Bildungsromans
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st Picador ed.
- Series Volume:
- 98-13
- Publication Date:
- September 16, 2003
- Binding:
- TP
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 544
- Dimensions:
- 8.20x5.54x1.01 in. 1.08 lbs.
