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Title
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
Author
Eugenides, Jeffrey, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0374199698
9780374199692 (alk. paper)
9780312422158
0312422156
9780312427733
0312427735
9780315422158
9780374199692 (alk. paper)
9780312422158
0312422156
9780312427733
0312427735
9780315422158
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
Description
viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS3555.U4 M53 2002
Alternate Call Number
HU 9800 E87
HU 9800
HU 9800
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
"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
"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
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003
Series
Oprah's book club.
Available in Other Form
Middlesex.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.