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Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Record details
- ISBN: 0312427735
- ISBN: 9780312427733
- ISBN: 0312422156
- ISBN: 9780312422158
- Physical Description: viii, 529 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, c2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Oprah's book club." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's -- English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop. |