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Author:

Eugenides, Jeffrey, author.

Title:

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Greek Americans--Fiction.
Grosse Pointe (Mich.)--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Gender identity--Fiction.
Intersexuality--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Greek World.
Fictional Works [Publication Type]
Michigan.
Domestic fiction.
Gender identity.
Greek Americans.
Intersexuality.
Teenagers.
Michigan--Detroit.
Michigan--Grosse Pointe.
Einwanderer
Geschlechtsumwandlung
Griechische Familie
Identitätsfindung
Zwitter
Greek Americans--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Suburban life--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fictional Work.
World literature.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Paperback.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Contents:

Book one: The silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- An immodest proposal -- The silk road -- Book two: Henry Ford's English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Book three: Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- The Mediterranean diet -- The wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- The obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- The gun on the wall -- Book four: The oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go West, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- The last stop.

Summary:

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Series:

Oprah's book club

ISBN:

0312427735
9780312427733
0312422156
9780312422158
9780374199692
0374199698

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48951262

LCCN:

2002019921

Locations:

DZPB423 -- Hubbard Public Library (Hubbard) — Copies: 3