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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Bildungsromans Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| ISBN: | 0312427735 9780312427733 0312422156 9780312422158 |
| OCLC Number: | 138755139 |
| Notes: | "Oprah's book club." |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey Eugenides. |
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"Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield, Cal is a wonderfully engaging narrator. . . A deeply affecting portrait of one family's tumultuous engagement with the American twentieth century." --"The New York Times"<br><br>"Expansive and radiantly generous. . . Deliriously American." --"The New York Times Book Review" (cover review)<br><br>"A towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being." -"-Los Angeles Times Book Review "(cover review)<br><br>"A big, cheeky, splendid novel. . . it goes places few narrators would dare to tread. . . lyrical and fine." --"The Boston Globe"<br><br>"An epic. . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness." --"People"<br><br>"Unprecedented, astounding. . . . The most reliably American story there is: A son of immigrants finally finds love after growing up feeling like a freak." --"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"<br><br>"Middlesex is about a hermaphrodite in the way that Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel is about a teenage boy. . . A novel of chance, family, sex, surgery, and America, it contains multitudes." --"Men's Journal"<br><br>"Wildly imaginative. . . frequently hilarious and touching." --"USA Today" Read more...
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