Middlesex: Reissued'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 |
Common terms and phrases
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