Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

  • Eugenides, Jeffrey
Date:
2013
  • Books

About this work

Description

This is a story about what it means to occupy the complex and unnamed middle ground between male and female, Greek and American, past and present. For Cal, caught between these identities, the journey to adulthood is particularly fraught. Jeffrey Eugenides' epic portrayal of Cal's struggle is classical in its structure and scope and contemporary in its content; a tender and honest examination of a battle that is increasingly relevant to us all.

Publication/Creation

London : Fourth Estate, 2013.

Physical description

x, 529 pages ; 20 cm

Notes

Originally published: 2002.

Contents

Book one: The silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- An immodest proposal -- The silk road -- Book two: Henry Ford's English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Book three: Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- The Mediterranean diet -- The wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- The obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- The gun on the wall -- Book four: The oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go West, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- The last stop.

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TW.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780007528646
  • 0007528647