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Middlesex  Cover Image Book Book

Middlesex

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 grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374199692
  • ISBN: 0374199698
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Formatted Contents Note: Book one: The silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- An immodest proposal -- The silk road -- Book two: Henry Ford's English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Book three: Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- The Mediterranean diet -- The wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- The obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- The gun on the wall -- Book four: The oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go West, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- The last stop.
Target Audience Note:
830L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 31 116030.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003
Subject: Detroit (Mich.) Fiction
Grosse Pointe (Mich.) Fiction
Fictional Works [Publication Type] Michigan
Teenagers Fiction
Intersexuality Fiction
Gender identity Fiction
Greek Americans Fiction
Greci in Occidente. English Greci in Occidente. English Fictional works
Genre: Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 15 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 2 of 3 copies available at Jefferson County.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jefferson County Library-Arnold F EUGENIDE (Text) 30000024078010 Fiction Checked out 05/01/2024
Jefferson County Library-Arnold F EUGENIDE (Text)
Donation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux via ALA "Oprah's Book Club"--2007.
30061000157731 Fiction Available -
Jefferson County Library-Northwest F EUGENIDE Jeffrey (Text) 30000022650034 Fiction Available -

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