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Book Description
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blesseContinue
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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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback
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Phobia said on Jul 3, 2010 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Allegra said on Jan 28, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- School & Library Binding
- ISBN-10: 0613996747
- ISBN-13: 9780613996747
- Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
- Pub date: Sep 01, 2003
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, 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)