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Middlesex  Cover Image Book Book

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

Summary:

""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. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic."--Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0312427735
  • ISBN: 9780312427733
  • Physical Description: viii, 529 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Picador, [2002]

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader UG 5.8 31 31 116030
Subject: Suburban life.
City and town life > Fiction.
Greek Americans > Fiction.
Grosse Pointe (Mich.) > Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction.
Gender identity > Fiction.
Intersexuality > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 6 of 7 copies available at Potter-Tioga Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Oswayo Valley Memorial Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Oswayo Valley Memorial Library F EUG (Text) 30723000310129 Adult Fiction Available -


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