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Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

Eugenides, Jeffrey,: (author.).

Summary:

"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 blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Calliope's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation--and a guilty secret--that have followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor city, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence--Jeffery Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire." -- Jacket flap

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374199692
  • ISBN: 0374199698
  • ISBN: 9780312422158
  • ISBN: 0312422156
  • ISBN: 9780312427733
  • ISBN: 0312427735
  • Physical Description: viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Oprah's book club
Formatted Contents Note:
Book one: The silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- An immodest proposal -- The silk road -- Book two: Henry Ford's English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Book three: Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- The Mediterranean diet -- The wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- The obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- The gun on the wall -- Book four: The oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go West, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- The last stop.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003

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Subject: Greek Americans > Fiction.
Gender identity > Fiction.
Intersexuality > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
City and town life > Fiction.
Grosse Pointe (Mich.) > Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.

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