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Genre/Form: | World literature Domestic fiction Bildungsromans Paperback Fictional Work Fiction Fictional Works |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
ISBN: | 0374199698 9780374199692 9780312422158 0312422156 9780312427733 0312427735 |
OCLC Number: | 48951262 |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003 |
Description: | viii, 529 pages ; 24 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. |
Series Title: | Oprah's book club. |
Responsibility: | Jeffrey Eugenides. |
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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 grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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