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Myth understood.
Middlesex * By Jeffrey Eugenides * Farrar, Straus, and Giroux * $27
Jeffrey Eugenides's first novel, The Virgin Suicides, established him as a good writer with a special gift for connecting with the reader, but his second, Middlesex, puts him in a different category altogether. It's a big, sweeping, ambitious book about a hermaphrodite, and it succeeds beautifully. Picture Searlett O'Hara with an elongated clitoris and you'll get an idea of the riveting story of our heroine, Callie Stephanides, who becomes our hero, Cal Stephanides, on page 441.
Yes, the book is very long, but that's good. It gives Eugenides plenty of time to deal with all sorts of disparate themes and subjects that have gone into making Cal/Callie who he/she is: Modern Greek history, silkworm farming, Detroit's social class system, and the origin of the Nation of Islam.
Cal/Callie narrates the tale, ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Salij, Marta October 30, 2002 700+ words
Sitting with Jeffrey Eugenides, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and now "Middlesex," in a restaurant recently...Eugenides made a splash with his first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," in 1993. That was set in Grosse Pointe and...
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- Newspaper article from: Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 24, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Esquire October 1, 2002 700+ words
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...of human nature, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex act as a...Richard M. Nixon In The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides establishes a spatiotemporal...maladaptation. The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex can be usefully...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 19, 2002 700+ words
...1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, an evocative lament...horror and comedy, Jeffrey Eugenides has been a writer...determinedly unlike The Virgin Suicides and, most importantly...As with The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides candidly...
- L.A. Weekly Explores Coming of Age on the Page; L.A. Weekly's Annual Literary...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 27, 2004 700+ words
...nature of the literary beast and examining the struggles of those who seek to tame it. Noted author Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex) reflects on the power and poison of Oscar Wilde's first (and only) novel, The Picture...
- `Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides; Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($27).
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 10, 2002 700+ words
...it's a story based on the familiar dynamic of belonging and displacement. Jeffrey Eugenides has already written one well-received novel, "The Virgin Suicides," that centers on the difficulties adolescents have fitting in with the world...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Matthews, Charles September 18, 2002 700+ words
...it's a story based on the familiar dynamic of belonging and displacement. Jeffrey Eugenides has already written one well-received novel, "The Virgin Suicides," that centers on the difficulties adolescents have fitting in with the world...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 5, 2002 700+ words
...with twin-set genitals, Jeffrey Eugenides silences such cheap jokes...astonishing debut, The Virgin Suicides , in which five daughters...out achievements of The Virgin Suicides : an ability to describe...bizarre detail. Where The Virgin Suicides reflected on ...
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