Middlesex - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Eugenides, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0374199698 / ISBN 13: 9780374199692

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002

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

Synopsis:

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--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.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.

The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia- back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite.

Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

About the Author:

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.

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.