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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“An uproarious epic, at once funny and sad, about misplaced identities and family secrets. . . . Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield, Cal is a wonderfully engaging narrator. . . A deeply affecting portrait of one family’s tumultuous engagement with the American twentieth century.” —The New York Times

“Delightful. . . . Infectious. . . . Bold.” —The Globe and Mail
 
“Jeffrey Eugenides is a big and big-hearted talent, and Middlesex is a weird, wonderful novel that will sweep you off your feet.” —Jonathan Franzen
 
“A towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
“Expansive and radiantly generous. . . Deliriously American.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“A wonderfully rich, ambitious novel.” —Salman Rushdie, New York Magazine

“An epic. . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness.” —People

“Unprecedented, astounding. . . . The most reliably American story there is: A son of immigrants finally finds love after growing up feeling like a freak.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“Middlesex is about a hermaphrodite in the way that Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel is about a teenage boy. . . A novel of chance, family, sex, surgery, and America, it contains multitudes.” —Men’s Journal

“Sweeps the reader along with easy grace and charm, concealing . . . the ache of earned wisdom beneath bushels of inventive storytelling.” —Adam Begley, The New York Observer
 
“Wildly imaginative. . . frequently hilarious and touching.” —USA Today
 
“Vibrates with wit. . . . A virtuosic combination of elegy, sociohistorical study, and picaresque adventure: altogether irresistible.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Wildly imaginative and engrossing . . . [Middlesex] skillfully bends our notions of gender . . . with its affecting characterization of a brave and lonely soul and its vivid depiction of exactly what it means to be both male and female.” —Booklist
 
“Once again, Eugenides proves that he is not only a unique voice in modern literature but also well versed in the nature of the human heart. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
  • Published date: Sep 23, 2003
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 544
  • Publisher: Knopf Canada
  • ISBN: 9780676975659
  • Dimensions: 5.5" W x 1.5" L x 8.2" H
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent.

After graduating from Brown University and Stanford University, in 1988 Jeffrey Eugenides published his first short story. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to rapturous acclaim. The compelling, tender and wickedly humorous story of the five Lisbon sisters in “the year of the suicides,” told in a voice representing the eclectic group of men who came under their spell, The Virgin Suicides was an immediate off-beat success. It has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film, and its author was named one of America’s best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

Middlesex, his second novel, won the Pulitzer Prize, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was hailed as a brilliant, original and joyful book by critics and readers alike. The New York Times Book Review described Middlesex as a “a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love”; Salman Rushdie called it “A wonderfully rich, ambitious novel”; the Los Angeles Times announced that with it, Jeffrey Eugenides “emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.”

Jeffrey Eugenides’ fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta. He lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife and daughter. His forthcoming projects include a book of short stories and a non-fiction guide to Berlin.

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