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Eugenides, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 0374199698 ISBN 13: 9780374199692

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002

Riassunto

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.75,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. Mr. Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated from Brown University, and received an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. Two years later, in 1988, he published his first short story.

Mr. Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides (FSG), was published in 1993. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the past few years he has been a Fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin. Mr. Eugenides now lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife and daughter.

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Copertina e pagine interne in condizioni eccellenti - Used in excellent condition [cant]

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0374199698
• ISBN 13: 9780374199692
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 544