Middlesex: Reissued

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Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct 3, 2011 - Fiction - 544 pages
'Middlesex' is 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. Jeffrey Eugenides is also the author of 'The Virgin Suicides'.
 

Contents

The Silver Spoon
3
Matchmaking
19
An Immodest Proposal
40
The Silk Road
63
Henry Fords EnglishLanguage Melting Pot
79
Minotaurs
106
Marriage on Ice
126
Tricknology
149
The Wolverette
291
Waxing Lyrical
307
The Obscure Object
319
Tiresias in Love
340
Flesh and Blood
361
The Gun on the Wall
377
The Oracular Vulva
401
Looking Myself Up in Websters
424

Clarinet Serenade
166
News of the World
183
Ex Ovo Omnia
198
Home Movies
215
Opa
232
Middlesex
252
The Mediterranean Diet
271
Go West Young Man
440
Gender Dysphoria in San Francisco
459
Hermaphroditus
478
AirRide
497
The Last Stop
513
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Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received The Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Middlesex" (Picador, 2003). "Middlesex," which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, France's Prix Medicis, has sold over 1 million copies.

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