Middlesex

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of three novels. His first, The Virgin Suicides (1993), is now considered a modern classic. Middlesex (2002) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and both Middlesex and The Marriage Plot (2011) were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Fresh Complaint , a collection of short stories, was published in 2017. He is a member both of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Klappentext 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations. Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America. Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 'A masterful dissection and reassembling of the American Dream into a shape you will not quite have seen anywhere before' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Warm and beautifully written. Illuminates part of the human soul' Sunday Times 'Truly original and compelling' Daily Mail 'Eugenides is a big and a big-hearted talent' Jonathan Franzen Zusammenfassung ‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.’

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Eugenides, Eugenides Jeffrey
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.06.2013
• EAN: 9780007528646
• ISBN: 978-0-00-752864-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Michigan, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction