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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction., Bildungsromans. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| ISBN: | 0312427735 9780312427733 |
| OCLC Number: | 138755139 |
| Description: | viii, 529 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's -- English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop. |
| Series Title: | Oprah's book club |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey Eugenides. |
Abstract:
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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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