Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780747590088 Global Overview for this book
Registered by fleurdelys of Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on 3/23/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by fleurdelys from Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Sunday, March 23, 2008
A great book. This was funny, with a fascinating storyline.
Amazon Editorial Review:
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.

Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:

Journal Entry 2 by fleurdelys at The John Hewitt Bar in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Monday, May 12, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (5/13/2008 UTC) at The John Hewitt Bar in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom

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Released at the May 2008 BX Meetup.

Journal Entry 3 by Shivers82 from Cork, Co. Cork Ireland on Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Picked this up at the May BX meet up. I am about a third of the way throuh it and am really enjoying it so far.

Great book really enjoyed it.

Journal Entry 4 by Shivers82 at The John Hewitt Bar in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Released 15 yrs ago (3/11/2009 UTC) at The John Hewitt Bar in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom

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Will leave in the alcove at The John Hewitt bar.


Journal Entry 5 by Threshold46 from not specified, not specified not specified on Sunday, May 31, 2009
I caught this book at the John Hewitt pub in central Belfast, Northern Ireland on Good Friday, 10 April 2009. It seemed to me that only a few pages of it had been read by previous borrowers - the book was in such excellent condition even though a paperback. I found the first couple of pages intriguing and decided that I had to take it and read it, despite its huge volume. It's been with me in London since then and I finished reading it today while flying back from a holiday in Greece.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Eugenides makes you regard odd things as normal - he makes you understand how they can happen and to accept them. He surprises you, moves you and uses the element of suspense with the talent of a real craftsman. He uses the characteristics of ancient Greek tragedy to carry the reader with him and he tells a very contemporary tale. What a master!

I will definitely pass this book on to someone in person or I will leave it some place where it can be caught by a stranger, but I have not decided yet who or where.

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