Middlesex
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`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.
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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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 544 pages
- 129 x 198 x 38mm | 380g
- 20 Jun 2013
- HarperCollins Publishers
- FOURTH ESTATE LTD
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0007528647
- 9780007528646
- 103,919
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`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
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`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
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About Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France's Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.
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