Where do we come from?-and crafted a story that manages to be both illuminatingĪnd transcendent.” - Los Angeles Times Book ReviewĪs a tribute to Nabokovian themes…Eugenides recounts the revelation of Callie’s On his way to becoming a spectacular mythologist, attacking some of our mostĮnduring riddles with heroic energy, keen wit, and genuine compassion…EveryoneĪlive…Eugenides has taken the greatest mystery of all-What are we, exactly, and The American twentieth century.” - New York Times Narrator…A deeply affecting portrait of one family’s tumultuous engagement with Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield, Cal is a wonderfully engaging It is the story of a hermaphrodite - quite sad, really, but intriguing, none the less.
"Middlesex made me laugh so much, it was so unexpected! It could have been great, but I think the writer got a little bit lost along the way and the last quarter of the book is a little ridiculous. Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenide's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives, back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting.
|y .i75779158 |i 36796021779575 |l fola |s - |k |u 10 |x 1 |w 0 |v 13 |t 103 |z 04-20-17 |o l |f CD |a FICTION Eugenides, J.Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
The passion that furtively develops between them-along with Callie's failure to develop-leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. |a In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. |a New York, NY : |b Audio Renaissance, |c p2002.
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