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Middlesex: A Novel
Scris de Jeffrey Eugenides
Povestit de Kristoffer Tabori
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- Macmillan Audio
- Lansat:
- Mar 1, 2003
- ISBN:
- 9781593971045
- Format:
- Carte audio
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In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate 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.
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, 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.
Sprawling across eight decades — and one unusually awkward adolescence — Jeffrey Eugenide'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.
A Macmillan Audio production.
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Middlesex: A Novel
Scris de Jeffrey Eugenides
Povestit de Kristoffer Tabori
Descriere
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate 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.
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, 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.
Sprawling across eight decades — and one unusually awkward adolescence — Jeffrey Eugenide'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.
A Macmillan Audio production.
- Editor:
- Macmillan Audio
- Lansat:
- Mar 1, 2003
- ISBN:
- 9781593971045
- Format:
- Carte audio
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I found some of the historical passages hard to push through, but the parts of the book about the Stephanides family were quirky and I liked them.
I give Middlesex 3.5 stars, just because there were dull bits.
More often than not this novel felt like it was two separate books. I get the connection and why the author felt all the backstory was needed but frankly I felt it had disjointed feel about it. It was highly entertaining! I enjoyed the back story far more than I enjoyed the parts specifically about Callie/Cal. I feel this book would have been better as a trilogy. Callie's struggles were real but I am not sure enough time was spent on her to really make me feel I knew the character. Perhaps that is the point as the character was questioning her own identity. At the end of the novel I found myself wondering what happening to Cal as he adjusted to living as a man. Not the boy Cal we were introduced to but the man.
If I had chosen to read the print edition I am not sure I would have stuck with it. The audio edition was the right choice for me. It was very well done.