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Middlesex: A Novel por Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex: A Novel (original 2002; edição 2002)

por Jeffrey Eugenides (Autor)

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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.
Membro:micahmom2002
Título:Middlesex: A Novel
Autores:Jeffrey Eugenides (Autor)
Informação:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002), Edition: 1st, 544 pages
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Middlesex por Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

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Well written, but not my taste.
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  mjphillips | Feb 23, 2024 |
It's hard to summarize this book succinctly, and I understand the feeling that it brings together a host of narratives and feelings, many of which not obviously thematically linked. Nevertheless, to me the very improbability of their occurrence is somehow more compelling; this is a fictional account of real experiences that captures something particular about each of them. For me, I took away so much. The literal American saga of the expulsion from war, immigrant experience and struggle, the Great Depression, the second war, the postwar boom, the 60s, the 70s. Race riots, white flight, San Francisco, the morphing and multiple views on religion, sex and life. The sensation of feeling out of place, at the bottom of the heap. The reassurance of the present-day narration. The repetitive cycles of life, the motifs that return, the lessons learned, the people along the way. The tropes, even. The secrets, the shame, the confusion, the inability to communicate, the struggle of making it work. Unchanging natures. The old men nattering. The teenagers. The fundamental existence of people, somehow, the contrast to the hubris of the present, to mine perhaps. Icarus rather than Prometheus.

Apparently, a review full of sentence fragments at 5am. It's good, read it. ( )
  Zedseayou | Jan 30, 2024 |
Enjoyable, though I found it a little slow in places, and the back-history of the hero/ine's family takes up most of the book it seems. I felt like I learned at least as much, probably more, about Greek-American culture than I did about the experience of hermaphrodism. ( )
  breathslow | Jan 27, 2024 |
I'm not quite sure what made me keep reading this book I found on the list of Pulitzer Prize winners. Maybe it was the family drama, or the way Eugenides effortlessly moved his characters through history while keeping everything relevant to the context of Calliope's story. Something did make me keep reading though, and by the end I was closely attached to the fates of the characters and inspired by the way Calliope comes out of this tumultuous journey which started even before she was born. ( )
  sophia.magyk | Jan 3, 2024 |
I can't add much to the perceptive assessments of this book offered by other Goodreads users below, other than to say it earns every word of high praise it has garnered.
  Mark_Feltskog | Dec 23, 2023 |
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''Middlesex'' is a novel about roots and rootlessness. (The middle-sex, middle-ethnic, middle-American DNA twists are what move Cal to Berlin; the author now lives there too.) But the writing itself is also about mixing things up, grafting flights of descriptive fancy with hunks of conversational dialogue, pausing briefly to sketch passing characters or explain a bit of a bygone world.

''The Virgin Suicides'' is all of a piece, contained within the boundaries of one neighborhood; ''Middlesex'' -- a strange Scheherazade of a book -- is all in pieces, as all big family stories are, bursting the boundaries of logic.
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