Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides [272]
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of the novel The Virgin Suicides. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Paris Review and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. The recipient of many major awards, he has most recently been a Fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the D.A.A.D. and of the American Academy of Berlin. He lives in Berlin with his wife and daughter.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Virgin Suicides
‘The year’s most sumptuously enjoyable book … Eugenides gives Callie a graceful fluency of style, enriched with witty phrasing and sensuous detail, that is worthy of John Updike’
Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘Jeffrey Eugenides is a big and big-hearted talent: generous to his readers in telling stories that unfailingly entertain, and generous to his characters, who mess up and strive and suffer and repent the way anyone we really love does – forgivably. Middlesex is a weird and wonderful novel that will surprise you and surprise you’
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections
‘A wonderfully rich, ambitious novel’
Salman Rushdie, New York Magazine
‘Hilarious and touching … So wildly imaginative that it borders on the bizarre, and yet so warm-hearted that it’s hard to resist’
USA Today
‘Map its genome and you’ll find ancestors as diverse as the case study, the immigrant saga and the sitcom … Sweeps the reader along with easy grace and charm, tactfully concealing intelligence, sophistication and the ache of earned wisdom beneath bushels of inventive storytelling’
New York Observer
‘Nine years in the writing and worth the wait’
Elle
‘Even as Eugenides gives us a contemporary model for the grand narratives of social realism, he has conscripted scientific arguments into the service of unforgettably beautiful myths and metaphors for human nature’
Evening Standard
‘Wildly inventive … it was worth the wait; this is a truly extraordinary novel based around one brilliantly drawn character’
Red
‘A vibrant chronicle of three generations of a Greek-American immigrant family living through the twentieth century … wonderful’
Independent
‘It is a testament to the skill of Jeffrey Eugenides that he can take the kind of subject-matter that some editors wouldn’t let past the pitch, and turn it into a novel that manages to encapsulate all America’
Arena Book of the Month
‘The true triumph of this novel lies in Eugenides’s ability to move beyond mere titillation, and into a sort of intensification of universal experience … superbly readable’
Sunday Telegraph
‘This is a truly original and compelling novel, by turns sad, funny and moving’
Daily Mail
‘The ideal book for those who enjoy intimate tales on an epic scale. *****’
Sunday Express
‘The novel becomes both a grand narrative of the immigrant experience and a deliciously twisted romance’
Esquire
‘Ever so rarely, I read a novel that deserves the accolade of ‘tour de force’. Jeffrey Eugenides’s new book Middlesex is such a novel, managing to be both immense in its human scope and moving and funny in its human detail. Life-changing is a rather alarming way to describe a book, but I suspect this one is just that’ Joanna Trollope’s Book of the Year,
Daily Mail
‘A tumultuous riot of a novel … eminently readable, extremely unusual, worth the wait’
Publishing News
‘A big, cheeky, splendid novel … it goes places few narrators would dare to tread … lyrical and fine’
Boston Globe
‘Unprecedented, astounding … The most reliably American story there is: A son of immigrants finally finds love after growing up feeling like