Books
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex |
Cal (born Calliope, but as a hermaphrodite who is only diagnosed when she's 14) is 41 now, and decides he has to write the story of his life, which starts with his Greek grandparents in 1922 when they travel to America after the burning of their home in Smyrna. The book is long and includes a large cast of characters, but Cal's journey and those of his friends and relatives make for compulsive reading.
(Julie Higgins - bwl 31 September 2005) |
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The Marriage Plot |
Meet Madeleine Hanna, an American student in the eighties, madly in love with charismatic, manic-depressive Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time Mitchell Grammaticus (a brilliant but withdrawn student) is sure that she is destined to be his future wife. You follow the beginning of their promising lives with interest. It's a very pleasurable thick read, funny and sad.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 65 Summer 2012) |
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