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.


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