Middlesex
A Historical, Fiction, Contemporary book. The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to...
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- Pages: 529 pages
- ISBN: / 9780007534
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She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is a surprising and wonderfully written story about the life of Calliope/Cal Stephanopolis who in the opening lines "was born twice: first, as a baby girl...and then again as a teenage boy." The subject of hermaphroditism or intersexuality is addressed throughout as the book as a running theme as the cinmatographique... April 2012Goddammit, Middlesex is beautiful. It's epic. And it's roughly 500 pages too short. That's right--too short. As a sweeping, three-generation epic novel that covers the lives of Calliope's grandparents, parents, and her own childhood before she became Cal, it's a damn near perfect novel. As the story of Cal, post-transformation,... Alright, its high time I review this hermaphroditic little masterpiece.Being a pseudo-biochemist (pseudo in the sense that I only pretend to be a biochemist, whereas in reality I write scientific development reports and other documents that no one will ever read but which Ive convinced myself are just as fulfilling as doing real science),...
