· Middlesex. by Jeffrey Eugenides pp, Bloomsbury, £ Gore Vidal once joked that the advantage of bisexuality was that it doubled your chances of Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Middlesex is a novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author’s life and inspired by his Greek heritage. The protagonist is an intersex individual known as both Cal and Calliope whose life has been affected by a mutated gene that worked its way through three generations of their family’s bloodline. Eugenides has always been very good at handling his characters with care but in Middlesex there is an added level of gentleness and sensitivity. Eugenides never passes judgment but rather lets the reader delve deeply into the motivations and rationale of each character so even if you do not understand why a decision was made you have an understanding of how a decision was made/5(K).
Middlesex is a novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author's life and inspired by his Greek heritage. The protagonist is an intersex individual known as both Cal and Calliope whose life has been affected by a mutated gene that worked its way through three generations of their family's bloodline. by Jeffrey Eugenides The Silver Spoon I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of ; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of Jeffrey Eugenides' epic and wondrous new novel, "Middlesex," may contain a daunting array of facts -- about the great Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit called River Rouge, about the burning of.
Middlesex Summary. Cal/lie Stephanides was first born as a girl in Detroit in , and then born again as a teenage boy in Petoskey, Michigan, in He is intersex, and is now 41 years old and living in Germany. He has decided to write his memoir after reading about historical figures who were also intersex. Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, first published in The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication. Its characters and events are loosely base Middlesex, , Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex is a novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author’s life and inspired by his Greek heritage. The protagonist is an intersex individual known as both Cal and Calliope whose life has been affected by a mutated gene that worked its way through three generations of their family’s bloodline.
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