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Van Pelt Library PS3555.U4 M53 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eugenides, Jeffrey.
- Series:
- Oprah's book club
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek Americans--Fiction.
- Greek Americans.
- Intersexuality.
- Grosse Pointe (Mich.)--Fiction.
- Grosse Pointe (Mich.).
- Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Gender identity--Fiction.
- Gender identity.
- Intersexuality--Fiction.
- Teenagers--Fiction.
- Teenagers.
- Domestic fiction.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- Greek World.
- Fictional Works [Publication Type].
- Michigan.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Michigan--Grosse Pointe.
- Medical Subjects:
- Greek World.
- Fictional Works [Publication Type].
- Michigan.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- World literature.
- Bildungsromans.
- Paperback.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 529 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003
- Stonewall Honor Books in Literature, Winner, 2003
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374199698
- 9780374199692
- 9780312422158
- 0312422156
- 9780312427733
- 0312427735
- OCLC:
- 48951262
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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