A Fine first Printing of the First Edition housed in a handsome alike dust-jacket; volume is signed by author Jeffrey Eugenides on the title page; Calliope Stephanides is a student at a girl's school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the spring of 1974 who finds herself drawn to a dramatic strawberry blonde chain smoker. The passion that develops between them and Callie's lack of development leads to a startling discovery, Calliope Stephanides is no girl at all; 8vo; [i-vii] viii [1-2] 3-529 [530-534] pages; Signed by Author.

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Titel

Middlesex - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Verlag

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0374199698

ISBN-13

9780374199692

Einband

1/4 Cloth

Auflage

First Edition; First Printing.

Zustand

Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Fine

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.75,000 first printing.

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Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. Mr. Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated from Brown University, and received an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. Two years later, in 1988, he published his first short story.

Mr. Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides (FSG), was published in 1993. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the past few years he has been a Fellow of the Berliner K�nstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin. Mr. Eugenides now lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife and daughter.

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola. Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicis, and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. It has sold more than 3 million copies.

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