Book
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
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: 0374199698
- ISBN: 9780374199692
- Physical Description: 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 |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 14 of 14 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nevada Public Library System.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 14 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada Public Library | FIC EUG (Text) | 32770114379290 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
