Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides [273]
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
‘Handled with storytelling genius … a good, old-fashioned family saga, owing its epic qualities to a fine cast of memorable individuals’
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‘Not for nothing has Eugenides been acclaimed as some new Homer: he offers similar scope, heroics and Greeks enduring watery misadventures … the prose is always generous, frequently amusing and never dull’
Financial Times
‘The clear, concise monosyllables set the agenda for an epic story… a vast great sprawling story, flickering through three generations, brilliantly engaging, stunningly written’
Anna Pavord’s Book of the Year, Evening Standard
‘Eugenides’ prose retains the energy, wit and tenderness that distinguished his debut … His talent blossoms in intimate details, not broad strokes or tangential musings … clever, beautiful and delightfully ambiguous’
The List
‘Dazzling … a big, fat, funny American book without which no chattering-class home is complete’
GQ
‘A recognisable type of the American immigrant epic transformed into a biotechnological quest’
Alexander Linklater’s Book of the Year, Evening Standard
First published in Great Britain 2002
Copyright © 2002 by Jeff Eugenides
This electronic edition published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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ISBN 978 1 4088 2484 9
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