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Author Eugenides, Jeffrey, author.

Title Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
©2002

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 Eu44m 2002    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Men lcdgt
Michigander lcdgt
Series Oprah's book club
Oprah's book club.
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.
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
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003
Subject Greek Americans -- Fiction.
Grosse Pointe (Mich.) -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Fiction.
Intersexuality -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
Greek Americans. (OCoLC)fst00947109
Intersexuality. (OCoLC)fst01715739
Teenagers. (OCoLC)fst01145551
Michigan -- Detroit. (OCoLC)fst01205010
Michigan -- Grosse Pointe. (OCoLC)fst01233348
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
ISBN 0374199698
9780374199692 (alk. paper)
9780312422158
0312422156
9780312427733
0312427735
9780315422158

 
    
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