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Middlesex by Eugenides, Jeffrey. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl</p><h3>Book Magazine</h3><p>For the first fourteen years of life, Calliope Helen Stephanides, the narrator and main character of this second novel from the author of The Virgin Suicides, is a coltish schoolgirl, the bright, coddled daughter of a hard-working Greek family who own a chain of hotdog stands in Detroit. But for Calliope, the transformations of puberty do not consist of the usual ripening of womanly curves, but rather the solid musculature, husky voice and nascent mustache of shocking, unsuspected manhood. Named for the muse of epics—of which this wonderful comic novel is surely a modern version—Calliope is the rarest form of hermaphrodite. "Like Tiresias," she explains, "I was first one thing and then the other." <BR> <BR> It is this dual viewpoint, as much as the oddity of her experiences, that prompts her to write. "I want to get it down for good: this roller coaster ride of a single gene through time. Sing now, O Muse, of the recessive m
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Eugenides, Jeffrey.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312427733
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (2,403 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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