Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
| Conditie | redelijk [vorm en inhoud goed] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 596 |
| Uitgavejaar | 2003 [First Picador Paperback Edition: August 2003] |
| Uitgegeven door | Picador |
| Kaft | paperback [pocket] |
| ISBN | 9780312991739 |
| Code [intern] | WEG 3-F |
Beschrijving boek
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974 … My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license … records my first name simply as Cal.
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overloooking Mount Olympus to Prohibition - era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty familiy secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
