Middlesex: Reissued - Brossura

Eugenides, Jeffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1408825694 ISBN 13: 9781408825693

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011

Riassunto

'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 Point, 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.

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Recensione:

'Superbly readable' (Sunday Telegraph)

'Truly original and compelling' (Daily Mail)

'A vibrant chronicle ... wonderful' (Independent)

Descrizione del libro:

The internationally bestselling 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner

Reissued to coincide with the publication of The Marriage Plot

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408825694
• ISBN 13: 9781408825693
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544