| Titre : |
Middlesex |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Jeffrey Eugenides, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New York (New York) [États-Unis] : Picador |
| Année de publication : |
2002 |
| Importance : |
529 p. |
| Présentation : |
couv. ill. en noir |
| Format : |
21 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-312-42215-8 |
| Note générale : |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Adolescents -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Détroit (Michigan) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle ; Fiction familiale ; Genre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Gréco-Américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Grosse Pointe (Michigan) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Hermaphroditisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle ; Vie aux faubourgs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Vie urbaine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator's life in motion |
| Note de contenu : |
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 |
Middlesex [texte imprimé] / Jeffrey Eugenides, Auteur . - New York (New York) (175, Fifth avenue, 10010, États-Unis) : Picador, 2002 . - 529 p. : couv. ill. en noir ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-312-42215-8 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Adolescents -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Détroit (Michigan) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle ; Fiction familiale ; Genre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Gréco-Américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Grosse Pointe (Michigan) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Hermaphroditisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle ; Vie aux faubourgs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Vie urbaine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator's life in motion |
| Note de contenu : |
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 |
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