Middlesex: A Novel [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Eugenides, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0312422156 / ISBN 13: 9780312422158

Published by Picador, 2002

Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed "To Linda Loomis" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. The book would be fine except for toning to the pageblock and a tiny inkmark on the top edge of the front cover. ?Winner of the Pulitzer Prize? medallion. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the Aga Khan Prize-, Whiting Award-, Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award-, Berlin Prize Fellowship-, Welt-Literaturpreis-, and Fitzgerald Prize-winning author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "The Marriage Plot". Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Seller Inventory # 007124

Synopsis:

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license...records my first name simply as Cal."

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

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, & Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Middlesex: A Novel [SIGNED COPY, FIRST ...
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No dust Jacket as issued
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition