Middlesex
by
Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Title
:
Middlesex
Author
:
Eugenides, Jeffrey.
ISBN
:
9780747561620
9780747564485
Personal Author
:
Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Publication Information
:
London : Bloomsbury, 2003.
Physical Description
:
viii, 529 pages ; 20 cm
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.
Abstract
:
'Middlesex' is the tale of a gene that passes down through three generations and flowers in the teenage body of Callie. Thanks to this gene, she begins to realise she is part girl, part boy. What results is a fable of the intricacies of gender and the untidy promptings of desire.
Subject Term
:
Greek Americans -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025519386 | 813.54 E87M 2003 | 1 |
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025519345 | 813.54 E87M 2003 | 2 |
| VEGA Bordeaux | General Books | 000006775 | 813.54 EUG | 1 |
| VEGA Cape Town | General Books | 000035379 | EUG | 1 |
| VEGA Cape Town | General Books | 000035381 | EUG | 2 |
| VEGA Durban | General Books | 000013717 | 823.54 EUG | 1 |
| VEGA Durban | General Books | 000013718 | 823.54 EUG | 2 |