Bibliograph

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Type

Label

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Middlesex

Oclc number

138755139

Responsibility statement

Jeffrey Eugenides

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.8, 31.0, 116030

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's -- English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop

Target audience

adult

Classification