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	Borders - Feature - Middlesex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		So begins Jeffrey Eugenides' second novel, Middlesex, the story of Calliope Stephanides, who discovers at the age of fourteen that she is really a he.
		Middlesex is a story about what it means to occupy the complex and unnamed middle ground between male and female, Greek and American, past and present.
		Middlesex is set against the backdrop of several historical events: the war between Greece and Turkey, the rise of the Nation of Islam, World War II, and the Detroit riots.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=middlesex_rg (1094 words)

	Middlesex (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bulk of the novel is devoted to telling his coming-of-age story growing up in Detroit, Michigan in the late 20th century.
		This story, however, is intertwined with elements of a family saga, meditations on the era's zeitgeist and bits of contemporary history.
		The novel begins in the small Greek village of his grandparents, where brother Lefty and sister Desdemona fall in love.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middlesex_(novel) (508 words)

	recbooks.htm
		But Middlesex covers a whole spectrum of twentieth-century life from intersexuality to the immigrant experience (specifically Greek immigrants) to the founding of the Nation of Islam to incredibly complex extended family relationships to love/lust/desire to self-delusion and deliberate lies to the arrogance of certain members of the medical profession to self-discovery from many different angles.
		The novel was inspired by an incident recounted by Byron in a letter, in which several people purportedly saw him in London on a particular day in which he was actually lying ill in Egypt.
		The novel is starkly realistic yet humane in its point-of-view, and it is infused with magic at the same time.
	hss.fullerton.edu /english/astein/recbooks.htm (1702 words)

	middlesex - Ask.com Web Search
		Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest in England (Rutland being the smallest).
		When county councils were introduced in England in 1889 part of Middlesex was used to form the County of London and the remainder formed the administrative...
		Middlesex does not have a single established historic county town, with different locations having been used for different county purposes:...
	search.ask.com /web?q=middlesex (252 words)

	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		The basic architecture of Middlesex - an epic about an immigrant American family - is familiar but here gains great freshness by following the progress of a single gene through the Stephanides clan, who flee to America in 1922 after their village is incinerated in the war between Greece and Turkey.
		The trick of the novel is that the gene which carries the possibility of androgyny becomes, for the reader, like a revolver brandished in the first act of a play.
		..Middlesex flicks between modern day Berlin where Cal is working as a diplomat, the tiny village Bithynios in Asia Minor where Lefty falls in love with his sister and Detroit from the early 1920s through to the 70s.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/middlesex.htm (1728 words)

	Book Reviews - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		The main character in Middlesex is Cal Stephanides, a hermaphrodite who was raised as a girl until he was a teenager when it was discovered that he was genetically a boy.
		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.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /middlesex (172 words)

	Middlesex has minimalist vibe, tasty treats - The Boston Globe
		The arrival of Middlesex in the Cambridge void between Central Square and the MIT village might finally give the neighborhood yuppie-hipsters a bar/chill spot to call their own.
		In the few short months since its arrival, Middlesex has cultivated a sort of velvet-rope mystique that makes people feel lucky to have gotten in, although all you need to enter is proof of age and tolerance for waiting in line.
		Named after the Massachusetts county, and not, presumably, for the gender condition of the hero/heroine of the Jeffrey Eugenides novel, Middlesex is decorless enough to be everything to everyone.
	www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2004/12/17/middlesex_has_minimalist_vibe_tasty_treats (604 words)

	Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
		The narrator of Middlesex, Calliope ("Cal") Helen Stephanides, is upfront with readers about what to expect, the novel beginning straight-off with the disclosure: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl (...) and then again, as a teenage boy".
		Middlesex is a family saga, but Eugenides does a poor job of presenting family: these are individuals whose paths sometimes cross, and while there are times when the relationships (the love, the hate, the needs) are clear and the mutual interactions made manifest most of the time they remain individuals, islands all.
		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.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/eugenj1.htm (2816 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, Paperback, REPRINT
		Spanning across eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence--Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
		Mostly, the novel remains a universal narrative of a girl who's happy to grow up but hates having to leave her old self behind.
		Middlesex is a quick reading “Epic” novel that does not dwell on any of the generations.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=t82XlsfA1Q&isbn=0312422156&itm=1 (2150 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Middlesex' vibrantly strange - September 9, 2002
		Only pretending to be straightforward, the author calls his vibrantly strange and heroic second novel ''Middlesex,'' after Middlesex Boulevard, a touchstone address in the life of the book's Greek-American narrator, C. Stephanides.
		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.
		''Middlesex'' is a novel about roots and rootlessness.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/09/ew.review.book.middlesex (600 words)

	Reviews
		The first half of the novel is a lyrical and richly textured fable in which Desdemona and Lefty (Cal’s grandparents) are drawn first as siblings and then as lovers.
		As the novel progresses Calliope becomes Cal, with the discovery that the female identity is not biologically sanctioned.
		In Middlesex, the textual self-consciousness of Cal’s hermaphroditic narration prompts questions about the assumption that selfhood is a seamless trajectory ordained and biologically inscribed from the time of genital development.
	www.cercles.com /review/R12/eugenides7.htm (1108 words)

	'Middlesex: A Novel' by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Middlesex also refers to the leafy street in Grosse Pointe, Mich., where Cal's family of Greek emigres wound up living as outsiders among Detroit's lily-white upper crust in the early 1970s.
		For more than 500 pages, the novel traces the Stephanides' journey to this posh suburban outpost, revealing how sexual and cultural displacement recur throughout history, culminating in the birth of Cal.
		Although Cal's many Proustian moments pad out this story -- this novel is triple the length of Eugenides' first, "The Virgin Suicides" (1993) -- they're worth it.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020929middlesex5.asp (513 words)

	Bookreporter.com - MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Cal Stephanides, the amiable narrator of MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides' big, beguiling treat of a second novel, is born with externally deceptive genitalia.
		MIDDLESEX is a cleverly post-modernized successor to the likes of Howard Fast's THE IMMIGRANTS series, engrossing multi-generational bestsellers that were popular in the Nixon era, when Cal Stephanides and Jeffrey Eugenides were growing up.
		Even the most eccentric subplots of MIDDLESEX (a Muslim temple scam, a tension-fraught car chase, the invention of hot dogs that flex like biceps) are imbued with a tender, familial warmth that leads the reader to accept them with relative ease.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0374199698.asp (844 words)

	"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides - Salon
		Even the steadily flowing mythic subtext of "Middlesex" -- Cal's self-comparisons to Tiresias, the seer who also changed genders, and to the Minotaur, which was also half one thing and half another -- is best understood literarily rather than literally.
		An explanation for Calliope's lack of breasts, hips or menstrual periods has at last emerged, in part because of a not-quite-lesbian romance with a fellow student, which is rendered, for all its unlikeliness, in exquisite and utterly convincing detail.
		"Middlesex" begins as a generous, tragicomic family chronicle of immigration and assimilation, becomes along the way a social novel about Detroit, perhaps the most symbolic of American cities, and incorporates a heartbreaking tale of growing up awkward and lonely in '70s suburbia.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/09/05/eugenides/index.html (974 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
		Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family’s American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation.
		The family moves into a new home called Middlesex in a tony suburb, and Calliope, who had been a beautiful little girl, is sent to private school.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975659 (1438 words)

	washingtonpost.com: She Said, He Said
		The novel's heroine, Calliope Stephanides, is born into a Greek family in Detroit in 1960.
		Middlesex is the name of the quirky modernist house the family calls home.
		Part of the novel's originality is that it celebrates a sexual identity that is not either/or, but both-and.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A12474-2002Sep13?language=printer (673 words)

	Dowagiac Daily News
		His 1993 novel made into a movie by Sofia Coppola he's seen three times concerns five Lisbon sisters taking their own lives from the voyeuristic perspective of a group of neighborhood boys.
		Compared to Middlesex and any books he publishes in the future, “I think The Virgin Suicides will always sell the most steadily because it has for 12 or 13 years.
		Besides a collection of short stories, Eugenides is writing his third novel, which he described as “very different” from his first two.
	www.dowagiacnews.com /articles/2005/10/27/news/dnnews3.txt (1614 words)

	3am Interview: AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFFREY EUGENIDES, AUTHOR OF THE MIDDLESEX AND THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
		Middlesex grew from my first idea, which was to write, basically, the fictional memoir of a hermaphrodite.
		So I, at least in these two novels, tried to take advantage of the ability of novels to be told by voices that you don't encounter every day.
		In Middlesex I go a lot in different people's heads and there's many different characters, so I don't think it corresponds to an idea of a higher autobiographical book, in that sense of a selfish selfish may be a bad word, but a self-centered view.
	www.3ammagazine.com /litarchives/2003/sep/interview_jeffrey_eugenides.html (4086 words)

	BookBlog [dot net]: Middlesex Archives
		First of all, I want to apologize...I realized too late that Middlesex was 529 pages long and that this is February--the shortest month of the year.
		I'm on vacation and have Middlesex ready to go since I'm determined to read it this week (although I do have to get through the last few pages of Norwegian Wood, which, sadly, I find difficult to finish yet cannot say why).
		Middlesex caused a buzz when it came out and everyone was reading it, but I had no idea what it was about until I finally bought my copy and read the back cover.
	bookblog.net /bbarchives/categories/middlesex.html (855 words)

	Sex, fate, and Zeus and Hera's kinkiest argument - Salon
		Jeffrey Eugenides' new novel, "Middlesex," is a fabulous creature of sorts, like those mythical beasts made up of the parts of several other animals.
		"Middlesex" is also the globe-spanning saga of Callie's Greek-American family, beginning with her paternal grandparents, who flee Turkish incursions into Asia Minor at the end of World War I (and who manage to escape to America and even to marry -- hiding the fact that they're brother and sister).
		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.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2002/10/08/eugenides/index.html?CP=RDF&DN=310 (992 words)

	The New Yorker : online : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Your novel is also the story of a Greek family coming to America.
		I've been working on "Middlesex" for a number of years, and the pieces that have been published in The New Yorker have been very directly concerned with gender identity.
		What I'm saying is this: the act of reading that novel puts the reader into a state of gender confusion.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content/020729on_onlineonly01 (1661 words)

	Amazon.com: Middlesex: A Novel: Books: Jeffrey Eugenides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		"Middlesex" is an uneven tale chronicling the lineage of Callie or Call Stephanides, a hermaphrodite whose sexual confusion stems from a particular recessive gene passed down when her grandfather and grandmother, who were brother and sister, got married and procreated.
		The science behind the novel is actually solid and in terms of the plausibility (within a fictional context of course), Eugenides definitely did his homework and was spot on with that aspect of the novel.
		I wonder if this novel won the Pulitzer because of the way it uses the tried and true method of being expansive (this novel chronicles multiple generations) and including a historical disaster (World War II and more specifically, the invasion of Greece) in an attempt to seem expansive at the cost of good literature.
	www.amazon.com /Middlesex-Novel-Jeffrey-Eugenides/dp/0312422156 (1962 words)

	PaperBackSwap.com - Book Details
		By the end of the novel, you will find yourself changed by the story of a little girl who grew up to discover that she was something else.
		Middlesex is a well written epic following the life of a remakably honest and real character, especially considering how surreal her condition.
		Middlesex paints wonderful word pictures; at least that is what a friend told me when she lent me the book.
	www.paperbackswap.com /book/details.php?isbn=0312422156 (2182 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Jeffrey Eugenides
		Middlesex, the author's long awaited follow-up, introduces another Grosse Pointe family: the Stephanides.
		Your first novel was more structurally compact and focused; now you come along with a follow-up that's teeming with characters and storylines.
		I hadn't quite expected the novel to be so normal, if that's the right way to put it, and so fun.
	www.powells.com /authors/eugenides.html (3505 words)

	Knowing the Body: Middlesex Forum
		In the novel, it is apparent that Callie/Cal's identity is not determined by her/his genes, but it is not solely defined by her environment either.
		Middlesex suggests that although events, in this case biological events change a person’s life, it is a person’s retrospective understanding of the change and subsequent response that determine human identity.
		Reading Middlesex reminds me of the plot of a science fiction novel in which characters customarily spend childhood as one sex and then decide if they would like to live their adult lives as another sex.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /forum/viewforum.php?forum_id=291 (7175 words)

	Metro Pulse/Pulp
		Middlesex's narrator is Cal Stephanides, who, at birth, had the external appearance of a girl and so was christened Calliope by his Greek-American parents.
		Though the whole Stephanides clan is important in the novel, Middlesex's main story still belongs to Cal. As Calliope, Cal is a beautiful little girl who wears frilly dresses and plays with dolls and is a valued half of the little salt-and-pepper-shaker set of children that completes the normal American nuclear family.
		The sheer scope of the novel, which covers events from 1922 to the present, is impressive, and Eugenides' narrator jumps around the timeline in a way that should seem jerky but is somehow seamless.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2003/1322/t_pulp.html (921 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Middlesex' vibrantly strange - September 9, 2002
		Only pretending to be straightforward, the author calls his vibrantly strange and heroic second novel ''Middlesex,'' after Middlesex Boulevard, a touchstone address in the life of the book's Greek-American narrator, C. Stephanides.
		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.
		''Middlesex'' is a novel about roots and rootlessness.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/09/ew.review.book.middlesex (600 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS
		Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2002).
		The most successful part of the novel takes place during Callie’s adolescence in Grosse Pointe, when she is first starting to suspect her abnormality, and she falls in love with a female friend, dubbed the Obscure Object, a wealthy, freckled chain-smoker who yawns in class.
		I suspect Eugenides knows this is the strongest part of the novel, since he chose to excerpt it and to read essentially the same part recently at the 92nd St. Y.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /books/winter03/middlesex.html (1435 words)

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