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	Middlesex -- 1559277807 (Audio Renaissance.com)
		Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenide's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
		Eugenides asks many of the big questions, and leaves the tragicomedy of life itself to suggest the answers.
		Jeffrey Eugenides' epic portrayal of Cal's struggle is classical in its structure and scope and contemporary in its content; a tender and honest examination of a battle that is increasingly relevant to us all.
	www.audiorenaissance.com /Product/Product.aspx?ISBN=1559277807 (884 words)

	Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
		From there Eugenides takes one of several unfortunate turns, as Cal runs away from what the doctor wishes to do to her (and from her family) and decides to become what s/he is meant to become all herself.
		And Eugenides wants his novel also to be both family saga and the story of an individual, and he doesn't manage to tie the two together particularly well.
		Eugenides took a long time to write this novel (it appears nine years after last work), and it seems he might have taken too much time to dwell and elaborate on it.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/eugenj1.htm (2816 words)

	Jeffrey Eugenides : Middlesex : Book Review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents immigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent.
		Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986.
		Eugenides is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Foundation for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Henry D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	mostlyfiction.com.cob-web.org:8888 /contemp/eugenides.htm (1111 words)

	Bookreporter.com - MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Eugenides grounds Cal's life story in the context of the sprawling Stephanides family history, a Greek-American immigrant saga that brings Cal's paternal grandparents to urban Detroit in the wake of the burning of Smyrna by the Turks in 1922 and leads all the way to the present day.
		Eugenides manages to tuck a strange personal tale into the capaciousness of a traditional commercial epic, much as Cal's pseudo-penis is hidden away in his labial folds.
		As Jeffrey Eugenides proved in his debut novel, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, he has a keen sense for the mysterious emotions of teenage attraction, the sometimes inseparable blend of the sexual and the romantic.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0312422156.asp (844 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner: Jeffrey Eugenides -- June 17, 2003
		JEFFREY BROWN: Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of this unusual tale, and this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
		JEFFREY BROWN: We met recently at the community bookstore on a visit to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he lived for many years as a young writer.
		JEFFREY EUGENIDES: You follow the gene from 1922 in the bodies of the grandparents, and you follow this gene as it goes into the parents of the narrator and finally into his body.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june03/eugenides_06-17.html (1492 words)

	Interview with Jeffrey Eugenides - Salon
		Jeffrey Eugenides' new novel, "Middlesex," is partly the coming-of-age story of Calliope Stephanides, who at 13 learns that, chromosomally speaking, she's actually male, though due to a particular recessive gene, her body doesn't respond much to male hormones; in other words, s/he's a hermaphrodite.
		Eugenides' first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," tells the story of five sisters from the perspective of a group of boys who live in the same neighborhood.
		Eugenides recently dropped by Salon's New York offices to talk about his new book, the genetic roots of the differences between men and women, the lasting influence of Greek myths, and the weird coincidences that kept him going in the eight years it took to write "Middlesex."
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/interview/2002/10/15/eugenides/index.html (343 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Jeffrey Eugenides recounts the Stephanides family’s experiences over the next fifty years with gusto and delight.
		“Jeffrey Eugenides’ expansive and radiantly generous second novel …; feels rich with treats, including some handsome writing….One of the delights of Middlesex is how soundly it’s constructed, with motifs and characters weaving through the novel’s various episodes, pulling it tight.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975659 (1438 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Jeffrey Eugenides
		In 1993, Jeffrey Eugenides published The Virgin Suicides, a spellbinding novel about five mysterious sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and the boys whose lives they would forever change.
		Eugenides: It wasn't a nod to Handkerchief; it was a nod to Moody, himself.
		Eugenides: As a person with a family, it's a much easier place to live than New York, which is why we stay: because we have a daughter.
	www.powells.com /authors/eugenides.html (3504 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Jeffrey Eugenides
		Jeffrey Eugenides was fired while writing his debut novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993), for concentrating more on his manuscript than on his job.
		The son of an American-born father with Greek parents and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent, Eugenides was born in Detroit in 1960.
		Eugenides was a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award.
	www.lectures.org /eugenides.html (1413 words)

	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Eugenides has some difficulty in holding together this sprawling, three-generational narrative, since Cal cannot easily narrate in the parts where (s)he is not yet born.
		Jeffrey Eugenides dares to base the plot on genetic theory, so if Homer is a distant ancestor, Darwin is another.
		"Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex" is a big, cheeky, splendid novel, and its confidence is part of its success, because it goes places few narrators would dare to tread.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/middlesex.htm (1728 words)

	'Middlesex: A Novel' by Jeffrey Eugenides
		A clever double entendre lurks in the title of Jeffrey Eugenides' fantastic second novel.
		Money, Eugenides elegantly shows, can be the ultimate vehicle of deracination, and Cal is proof of that.
		In the end, however, Eugenides does such a superb job of capturing the ironies and trade-offs of assimilation that Calliope's evolution into Cal doesn't feel sudden at all, but more like a transformation we've been through ourselves.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020929middlesex5.asp (513 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Middlesex' vibrantly strange - September 9, 2002
		Nine years later, Eugenides has returned to the Detroit environs of his youth, embracing mutation as the only real constant in the American character.
		Backtracking, detouring, and revisiting, Eugenides is sometimes so eager to tell all he feels and knows that he chomps and races through what he sees.
		He throws in the rituals of the immigration process through Ellis Island, the terrors of the Detroit race riots of the late 1960s, and the quiet, old-school ethnic bigotry that would have kept the Stephanides from buying their Grosse Pointe house if they hadn't paid cash.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/09/ew.review.book.middlesex (600 words)

	Amazon.com: The Virgin Suicides: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After you reach the last of the 250 very well written pages,you realise that Jeffrey Eugenides hasn't revealed anything more than you knew from page one: the only thing the reader knows is that the 5 blond, almost indistinguishable Lisbon sisters commit suicide one by one.
		Eugenides is a very gifted new author, and manages to create a great book, even though with the total absence of characterization (the 5 sisters are almost described as one single person)as well as the total absence of feeling or explanation, this could prove to be tricky.
		Jeffrey Eugenides has mastered the english language and I would easily recommend both this book and Middlesex to anyone who loves fiction that you can't put down and can never forget.
	www.amazon.com /Virgin-Suicides-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0446670251 (2344 words)

	Amazon.ca: Middlesex: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Eugenides, writing as Cal/Calliope, manages to give proper voice to both his male and female sides.
		Simply this: the first half of the book, up to the moment of Cal's birth, is not nearly as absorbing or consequential as the second half, which focuses on Cal's life and gradual discovery of his/her gender and preferences, which precipitates the book's main themes.
		Eugenides intends the first half to be more than just the set-up for Cal's story, but I feel if he had restricted himself to simply that purpose, he would have created a shorter but even more powerful, moving story.
	www.amazon.ca /Middlesex-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0676975658 (1756 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Virgin Suicides: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is merely that in the most extreme cases one finds the most mundane aspects of human experience: the domesticated desires of humans to watch, touch and participate within a community.
		Eugenides triumph is that he gives us the motivations of people without offering us the sideshow of what they so eagerly desired to see.
		The author - Jeffrey Eugenides - paints an accurate depiction of the teenage years - a painful time of mixed feelings, confusion, obsession, and self-doubt.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Virgin-Suicides-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0747560595 (1594 words)

	Research and family history undergird novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jeffrey Eugenides said last week that writing a story about men and women requires "a hermaphroditic imagination."
		As adults, both author and narrator live in Berlin, with (respectively) a wife and a girlfriend who are photographers with Japanese parentage.
		Eugenides used this material because, he said, "I needed it.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/92678_book25.shtml (953 words)

	palm eBook Store: Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
		Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent.
		Eugenides now lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife and daughter.
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	ebooks.palm.com /author/detail/5556?author=Jeffrey_Eugenides (239 words)

	“Middlesex”, Jeffrey Eugenides Jennifer Trak - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It's after finishing this novel when the simple lesson we all learned in kindergarten finally begins to ring true — that underneath it all, we are all the same.
		About the author: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents immigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent.
		Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986.
	www.opendemocracy.net /arts/middlesex_3631.jsp (549 words)

	"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides - Salon
		Presumably his Lambert family had ancestors who arrived in the fictional Midwestern metropolis of St. Jude from somewhere else, but if so they've been obliterated in the general whitewash of American history.
		Franzen's often scabrous satire is focused on the mendacity and denial that he sees pervading our national life, whereas Eugenides isn't a satirist at all, regarding America, his much-maligned hometown of Detroit and even the most ridiculous members of the Stephanides family with unreserved and compassionate sympathy.
		If Franzen's strength is the almost merciless clarity of his vision, Eugenides' is his prodigious grasp of history and ancestry as limitless fields that surround us and through which we travel, both forward and backward, toward our unknown destination.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/09/05/eugenides/index.html (974 words)

	Amazon.de: The Virgin Suicides: English Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lisbon, a mild-mannered high school math teacher, is driven to resign by parents who believe his control of their children may be as deficient as his control of his own brood.
		Eugenides risks sounding sophomoric in his attempt to convey the immaturity of high-school boys; while initially somewhat discomfiting, the narrator's voice (representing the collective memories of the group) acquires the ring of authenticity.
		The author is equally convincing when he describes the older locals' reactions to the suicide attempts.
	www.amazon.de /Virgin-Suicides-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0374284385 (1025 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Middlesex: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There was not one touch of reality here; all the characters were "characters"--all such unique and idiosyncratic individuals born of my rich imagination, not a touch of anything recognisably human, nothing to give you that wow, you really nailed a fundamental truth there moment.
		I bought this thinking it would be an interesting personal story of an intersex individual; instead it was a long winded history lesson that no doubt Eugenides must have known would be described as 'vast' by the critics.
		It was so I'm going to write a novel on a grand scale and win prizes, and yet it didn't have the spine to be openly arrogant; it pretended to be modest, to be unassuming.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Middlesex-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0747561621 (1090 words)

	Amazon.com: Middlesex: A Novel: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		by Jeffrey Eugenides "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage..." (more)
		From the first sentence of Jeffrey Eugenides' MIDDLESEX, I was hooked by this complicated tale of a young girl who grows into a man. The story of Cal Stephanides begins generations before his birth, in a small Greek village, when his grandparents succumb to incestuous desires.
		Jeffrey Eugenides really is a talented, nimble writer.
	www.amazon.com /Middlesex-Novel-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0312422156 (2315 words)

	Powell's Books - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Calliope is not like other girls and must 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.
		Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities.
		His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0312422156-13 (463 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Jeffrey Eugenides by Jonathan Safran Foer (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I've known Jeffrey Eugenides for several years and in several contexts — first as one of his readers, then as a student of his at Princeton, and now as a friend.
		From the beginning of his novel The Virgin Suicides to the end of his most recent email, I've always been enamored of how vivid Jeff's mind is and how clearly he seems to know what it is he wants to say.
		Even though the book has enough technical twists to please any postmodern reader, it is, at its core, a good old-fashioned story — the kind of book that urges to be read in one day, then reread.
	www.bombsite.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eugenides/eugenides.html (255 words)

	Book Reviews - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Cal decides his that he will live between the genders and be "middlesex." He discovers that his condition was caused by the in-breeding of his ancestors.
		Jeffrey Eugenides novel tells the family history and how sexual and cultural conditions led to Cal's birth and how Cal lives as both and neither as a man and a woman.
		It's a book filled with history and family and assimilation, including how all of us sometimes feel out of the mainstream of life and must find our place to fit in.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /middlesex (172 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay - Book: Middlesex (ISBN: 1559277807) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"[W]hile some of the odds and ends Eugenides tosses into the mix...don't quite integrate, far more often than not the novel feels rich with treats, including some handsome writing....[T]he novel's patron saint is Walt Whitman, and it has some of the shagginess of that poet's verse to go along with the exuberance.
		Jeffrey Eugenides first novel, The Virgin Suicides was an acclaimed bestseller that I have not read.
		While the style and imagination of Eugenides is totally original, there are hints of other great literary works such as Wolfe s Look Homeward Angel, Heller s Catch-22 and "Catcher in the Rye".
	product.ebay.com /Middlesex_ISBN_1559277807_W0QQfvcsZ1390QQsoprZ2362205 (727 words)

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