Middlesex

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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.

Copies:

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Summary

New York Times Editors' Choice - Best Book of 2002

A rollicking family epic like no other, Middlesex follows three generations of the Stephanides family from 1920s Greece to Detroit in the mid to late 20th century to contemporary Berlin. Brother and sister Lefty and Desdemona flee the crumbling Ottoman Empire in 1922; by the time their ship docks in New York they are husband and wife. The narrator of this funny and humane tale is their grandchild Cal, who as a result of their unusual liaison was born a girl but grows into a man.

... full of incident and hilarity and feeling, with... a great cast of characters. It's juicy, beautifully written... It is as good as American fiction has been in the longest time. - Australian Financial Review

... so well-paced and so effortlessly dramatic... an enormously entertaining epic... It's a miracle. - The Bulletin

The rite-of-passage of the narrator, Cal Stephanides, is the most intimate and convincing piece of characterisation in a novel that is full of memorable characters....an impressive, promise-fulfilling work....Middlesex is a great read. - The Sydney Morning Herald

... an epic with shades of myth and tragedy....this feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness. Cal is one of recent fiction's most endearing characters. - Who Weekly

Expansive and radiantly generous... a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love. - New York Times Book Review

Superb... a warm and beautifully written novel that illuminates the part of the human soul that even biology cannot reach. - Sunday Times

A sweeping, funny, and tender story of a girl's unlikely journey to manhood... Eugenides has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being. - Los Angeles Times Book Review