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Published: 20/06/2013
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Waterstones Says

Sprawling, big-hearted and rambunctious, Middlesex traces the vagaries of the American Dream through an intersex individual and their quixotic extended family. Bending the traditional bildungsroman to his mercurial will, Eugenides crafts a rich, effusive novel that retains its relevance over fifteen years after its original publication.

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.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007528646
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 380 g


MEDIA REVIEWS

‘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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“Beautiful”

Being British, it can be easy to dismiss the literary aspirations of other territories. It is akin to a selfish teenage phase, petulant and ignorant and it has taken me an age to ignore the ignorant inward assertion... More

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Rosie at York

“I cannot reccomend this book more - it's a DREAM ”

I think this is the book I recommend to customers most regularly, it's the book I wish I hadn't read so I could have the experience of reading it for the first time again! Its follows the heritage and life... More

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“Re-adjust your expectations?”

Writing this review makes me a little sad. Coming off the back of The Virgin Suicides, I had really high hopes for this book and, as a non-binary person, I was really looking forward to seeing where my own experiences... More

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