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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction., Bildungsromans. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| ISBN: | 0312422156 : 9780312422158 |
| OCLC Number: | 53142185 |
| Description: | viii, 529 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey Eugenides. |
Abstract:
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator's life in motion.
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