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Book Description
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girlContinue
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readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010
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He's not like other girls
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Bloomsbury £16.99, pp544 Jeffrey Eugenides has spent nine years writing Middlesex, a comic epic concerning the transmission of a gene from a village in Asia Minor through twentieth-century Detroit to contemporary Berlin ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
26 Reviews
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5 people find this helpful




Qualche annotazione personalissima giusto per non limitarmi a un sacrosanto “ma quanto è bravo Eugenides”. Il mio percorso di lettura è parallelo a quello di qualche mese fa con Franzen. All’epoca, malgrado Le Correzioni mi chiamassero ormai da molto tempo, mi ero decisa a leggere Franzen a partire ... (continue)
Lucy van Pelt said on Dec 9, 2011 | 10 feedbacks
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In my top ten
I studied anthropology at uni. This involved looking at things like kinship studies, gender and the whole nature vs. nurture thing. It's an interesting subject. Unfortunately, most anthropologists are rather dull writers, especially around kinship studies.
This book really appealed to me as i ... (continue)Athene1710 said on Feb 20, 2008 | 1 feedback
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Phobia said on Jul 3, 2010 | Add your feedback
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This is the story of Calliope/Cal, a hermafrodite born and raised as a girl, who later on became a man. The personal story of Callie/Cal is interwoven with that of the Stephanides family whose grandfather and grandmother flew a massacre in Turkey and emigrated to the United States. Cal/Callie starts ... (continue)
Lilyofthevalleys2000 said on Feb 2, 2012 | Add your feedback
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Che esperienza la lettura di Middlesex di Eugenides! La vicenda personale di Callie/Cal è raccontata con estrema sensibilità e finezza nel cogliere gli aspetti psicologici del personaggio alla scoperta di sè. La storia di una famiglia che emigra in America agli inizi del Novecento e l'America stessa ... (continue)
Annette said on Jan 29, 2012 | Add your feedback
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 544 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0312427735
- ISBN-13: 9780312427733
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Jun 05, 2007
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides
This book has received rave reviews, been an international bestseller and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. And no wonder - it is BRILLIANT. Middlesex is wholly original and unlike anything I've ever read before. Just look at the opening line: ... (read full critics)