Middlesex - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Eugenides, Jeffrey
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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. Seller Inventory # 123878
Bibliographic Details
Title: Middlesex - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
About this title
The book's wily narrator and central character, Calliope Stephanides (named after the muse of epic poetry) is a hermaphrodite raised as a girl who comes to realise she is happier as a boy and is now living as a man in contemporary Berlin. Cal's tale begins, appropriately enough, in Greece (or more precisely Asia Minor)--an Aegean Strasbourg whose sovereignty is claimed by Greece and Turkey. In 1922 brother and sister Lefty and Desdemona Stephanides escaped their war-torn homeland and arrived, as man and wife, in Detroit, America. It is this coupling that ultimately begets their grandchild Calliope and her ambiguous sexuality, as she, or rather by then he, sanguinely notes:
Some people inherit houses; others painting or highly insured violin bows. Still others get Japanese tansu or a famous name. I got a recessive gene on fifth chromosome and some very rare family jewels indeed.As Cal recounts the experiences of the Stephanides clan in their new land--from the Depression to Nixon--he unfurls his own symbiotic odyssey to a new sex. Cal's narrative voice is arch, humorous and self aware, continually drawing attention to its authorial sleights of hand, but never exasperating. This is big, brainy novel--The Oracle of Delphi puts in an unlikely appearance in the middle of a teenage tryst--but one full of compassion. Eugenides' astonishingly rich story persistently engages the heart as well as the mind. --Travis Elborough
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