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Jeffrey Eugenides and Benito Gomez Ibanez - Middlesex

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In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.

The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation - and a guilty secret - that have followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun.

Spanning eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, original f

 

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Middlesex - Pulitzer Prize novel - epic Greek American tale

Date of Review:  Mar 5, 2005
The Bottom Line: I'm sure this book would not appeal to everyone, but it is a refreshing look at a taboo subject with an ineresting and pivotal backdrop.
Review: There is something not quite right about Calliope Stephanides, and Middlesex is about her journey of discovery. The story covers three generations of her Greek-American family starting in a small Greek village and ending on the doorstep of the...
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Fascinating tale. Interesting...
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Odd narration. Pre-adolescent sexual...
 

The Childhood of a Greek Hermaphrodite - Middlesex

Date of Review:  Aug 21, 2007
The Bottom Line: Middlesex is the latest Oprah Book and it's worth looking at.
Review: I have been reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for weeks. I d seen it several times while browsing and carousing through Borders and Barnes & Noble, but I really hadn t paid much notice to it until it became a recent Oprah Book Club pick...
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THREE GENERATIONAL TALE OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN AMERICA

Date of Review:  Feb 18, 2004
The Bottom Line: If you want to go beyond the mundane into the beautiful world of words, this is the book for you.
Review: Middlesex is one of the most amazing books that I have ever read. It is humorous, painful, realistic and full of fantasy of a sort. Jeffrey Eugenides first novel, The Virgin Suicides was an acclaimed bestseller that I have not read. Middlesex won...
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Authors Benito Gomez Ibanez
Narrator Kristoffer Tabori
Fiction Genre Unknown
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award

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  Bookforum: "[L]et me shake Eugenides's hand and say that MIDDLESEX contains scenes that are as wonderful as written prose can get, and these passages have nothing to do with askew genitalia....MIDDLESEX begins as a neo-Doctorow Depression-era novel, then becomes a Son of John Irving 1950s novel, before ending as a kind of VIRGIN SUICIDES redux."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 04, 2002)
Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1.67"(d), 1.95 lbs.
ISBN: 9780374199692
 

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Spanning eight decades, Eugenides s long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America s best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.
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