Middlesex Novel by Eugenides Jeffrey (262 results)

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Cassette. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. GOOD/WITH NO JACKET, 89 pp. Text clean and shows little sign of use. Tan paper wraps with red/black text. Binding glued and firm.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Advance Reading Copy. Minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family's American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation. In 1922, Desdemona and Eleutherios ("Lefty") Stephanides, brother and sister, leave the war-ravaged village of Bithynios in Asia Minor. With their parents dead and their village almost empty, Desdemona and Lefty have gradually been drawn closer together and fallen in love. As the Turks invade and the Greeks abandon the port of Smyrna, Lefty and Desdemona -- Callie's grandparents -- escape to reinvent themselves as a married couple in America. Jeffrey Eugenides recounts the Stephanides family's experiences over the next fifty years with gusto and delight. Upon their arrival in Detroit, Lefty goes to work at the Ford motor plant and the couple live with Desdemona's cousin Sourmelina -- a woman with her own secrets -- and her bootlegging husband Jimmy Zizmo. After Jimmy disappears and the Stephanides' son Milton is born, Lefty opens a speakeasy called the Zebra Room, and Desdemona goes to work tending silkworms for the Nation of Islam. Milton serves in the Navy in World War II and returns to marry his cousin Tessie, Sourmelina's daughter, and the errant gene comes closer to expression. Milton takes over the family business and they have two children, Calliope and Chapter Eleven, but as their fortunes rise the city's fall, and Detroit is torn by riots with the intensity of warfare. The family moves into a new home called Middlesex in a tony suburb, and Calliope, who had been a beautiful little girl, is sent to private school. So begins one of the strangest, most affecting adolescences in literature. As time passes Calliope gets taller and gawkier without developing into womanhood. Her classmates' bodies change and they grow interested in boys; Callie remains flat-chested and waits in vain for her first period. And she has a curiously intense friendship with a girl at her school, the beautiful and confident Obscure Object of Desire. It is only when she has an accident at the Obscure Object's summer house and is examined by an emergency room doctor that Callie and her parents discover that she isn't like other girls. She is referred to an eminent New York doctor who, after extensive physical and psychological testing, pronounces her genetically male: 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome caused her true genital characteristics to remain hidden until puberty. Callie is a hermaphrodite. Since she was raised as a girl, Dr. Luce recommends cosmetic surgery and hormone injections to make her seem more fully female. But Callie refuses to be something she is not. She runs away, cuts her hair short and hitch-hikes across the country to California, calling "him"self Cal. And after some difficulties -- and performances in a strip club in San Francisco at the height of sexual liberation -- Cal learns to relish being both male and female. One more unexpected family tragedy, and some old revelations, await in Detroit. This animated and moving story is narrated by Cal Stephanides, now an American diplomat living in Berlin. While telling us about his past, he fumbles towards a romantic relationship with an artist who might be able to accept him for the unique person he is.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition as stated on copyright page by numbers 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Pulitzer Prize winner. Near fine book, lightening on top back cover, dent on bottom front cover, and marks on bottom edges. Near fine dust jacket, shows minor wear, and very few creases on edges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition as stated on the title page, stated on number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Very good book except for red stains on top and bottom back cover, small stains on bottom edge and foredge, and small stain on front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Middlesex: A Novel, Eugenides, Jeffrey. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2002. First Edition, First printing. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 544 pp. Quarter beige cloth over beige boards, red spine titles. Tiny remainder dot bottom to edge and otherwise in fine condition without markings, tears or folds; unclipped jacket in like fine condition. Middlesex earned Eugenides the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2003 as well as several other literary prizes and nominations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York: FSG, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition and first printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Fine in like dust jacket.

Later printing. 8vo. [v iii], 529 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (101839).

Hardcover. Condition: like new. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. SIGNED. Advance reader's copy. Soft cover in like-new condition, with no internal markings other than signature on the title page. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. viii, 529pp. Black boards lettered in red at the spine. Ribbon place marker. A trace of light toning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped faux-distressed dust wrapper. The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning second novel.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.30 X 5.90 X 1.60 inches; 544 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; 9.3 X 5.9 X 1.6 inches; 544 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition. SIGNED first US edition (first printing) of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002. This is the true first US hardback published by FSG in 2002, with a full number line on the copyright page. A ground breaking story of gender and identity. Signed on the title page. Mint condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New. First Edition. Pulitzer Prize. Signed at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, University of Chicago, 5757 S University Ave. Eugenides gave a talk and took questions, then signed this book. Included is the Bookstore's September 2003 Events calendar, and the small poster posted just outside the door. The book is as new and lives in a glass case. The story of incest and a resulting child with a genetic mutated chromosome. Eugenides also wrote The Virgin Suicides. Signed by Author(s).