Middlesex

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THE INTERNATIONAL"Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holdén Caulfield, Cal is a wonderíully engaging narrátor A deeply affecting portrait of one family's tumiiliuoús engagement with the American twentieth century." - The New York Times IDDLESEX tells thé breathtaking story of calliope stephanidés and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from lifflF a tiny víllage overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical aind thriUing, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. "Expansive and radiantly generous.. "A big,... Tovább

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THE INTERNATIONAL"Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holdén Caulfield, Cal is a wonderíully engaging narrátor A deeply affecting portrait of one family's tumiiliuoús engagement with the American twentieth century." - The New York Times IDDLESEX tells thé breathtaking story of calliope stephanidés and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from lifflF a tiny víllage overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical aind thriUing, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. "Expansive and radiantly generous.. "A big, cheeky, splendid növel... DeÜriously American." lyrical and fi ne." - The Boston Globe -TheNew YorkTimes Boojt Review epic... This feast of a növel is "A towering achievement... He has emergéd thriUing irrthe scope of its imagination and as the great American writer that many surPrisingin its tenderness." -People suspected him of being." -Los Angeles "Unprecedented, astounding." Times Book Review (cover/eview) -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review JEFFREY EüGENI DE S was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford universities. His first növel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. k C 0 V E R DESIGN BY HENRY SENE VEE • COVER ILLUSTRATION BY OLGA GR L1t CO V E R CONCCPT AND A U T H 0 R PHOTO BV KARÉN VAMAUCNI PICA www.picadorusa.com distributid by holtzbrinck publishers 175 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. N.Y. STATES of AMERICA Vissza