Middlesex. Signed Pulitzer Prize Winner.

EUGENIDES, Jeffrey.

ISBN 10: 0747560234 / ISBN 13: 9780747560234

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2002

About this Item

First U.K. edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Jeffrey Eugenides. Black paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Some toning to the text as usual with older British books. Winner of The Pulitzer Prize. Number 18 on The New York Times Reader's list of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century. Number 59 on The New York Times Critic's list of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century. Seller Inventory # 218554

Bibliographic Details

Title: Middlesex. Signed Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Publisher: Bloomsbury, London

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, Callie has inherited a rare genetic mutation. The biological trace of a guilty secret, this gene has followed her grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Detroit and has outlasted the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both GRANTA and the NEW YORKER.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. He lives in Berlin.