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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come.So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations.Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America.Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Middlesex

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    A Paperback / softback by Jeffrey Eugenides

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
      Published 26 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9780008553807
      978-0008553807
      ISBN-10 0008553807
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come.So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations.Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America.Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

      Trade Review

      ‘A masterful dissection and reassembling of the American Dream into a shape you will not quite have seen anywhere before’ Daily Telegraph

      ‘Superb. Warm and beautifully written. Illuminates part of the human soul’ Sunday Times

      ‘Truly original and compelling’ Daily Mail

      ‘Eugenides is a big and a big-hearted talent’ Jonathan Franzen

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