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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: Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 24, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Salij, Marta October 30, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Esquire October 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 27, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Zellar, Brad September 8, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) November 24, 2002 700+ words
...Byline: David Kronke Staff Writer Jeffrey Eugenides' first book, the cult smash ``The Virgin Suicides,'' examined a group of misunderstood...which was strongly pronounced in 'Virgin Suicides.' Now, I understand it was a strange...
