Middlesex (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. Middlesex. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
8vo. Full grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Jeffrey Eugenides (b. 1960) was born in Detroit of Greek-American and Anglo-Irish descent, the combination of inheritances that provided the biographical raw material for his second novel. His first, The Virgin Suicides (1993), had established him immediately as one of the more original voices in American fiction; Middlesex, when it finally appeared nine years later, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and France's Prix Médicis, was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and has since sold more than three million copies. The New York Times Book Review called it "a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love." It was ranked eighteenth on the New York Times readers' list of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century.
The novel's narrator, Cal Stephanides, opens with the declaration: "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." Cal has a rare genetic condition — 5-alpha-reductase deficiency — that causes intersex development, a condition inherited from a recessive gene carried through three generations of the Stephanides family. To trace the origin of that gene, the novel must go back to the beginning: to Desdemona and Lefty Stephanides, Cal's grandparents, who were brother and sister, who fled Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, who reinvented themselves as cousins on the boat to America, and who settled in the Greek community of Detroit during Prohibition.
From there the novel traces the family through three generations and across the major upheavals of American twentieth-century history — Prohibition and the Ford assembly line, the Detroit race riots of 1967, the Vietnam era — before arriving at Cal's own story: a childhood as Callie, an adolescent discovery of an identity that the medical establishment and the social world around her cannot accommodate, and an eventual self-determined emergence as Cal. The narrative architecture is Eugenidean in its ambition — part family saga, part coming-of-age novel, part meditation on genetics and identity, part immigrant epic — and the voice that carries it, simultaneously intimate and panoramic, is one of the most sustained achievements in contemporary American fiction.
Very good. Some loss to cover gilt; very faint spotting to edge gilt. Contents otherwise fine.
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EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. Middlesex. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
8vo. Full grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Jeffrey Eugenides (b. 1960) was born in Detroit of Greek-American and Anglo-Irish descent, the combination of inheritances that provided the biographical raw material for his second novel. His first, The Virgin Suicides (1993), had established him immediately as one of the more original voices in American fiction; Middlesex, when it finally appeared nine years later, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and France's Prix Médicis, was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and has since sold more than three million copies. The New York Times Book Review called it "a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love." It was ranked eighteenth on the New York Times readers' list of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century.
The novel's narrator, Cal Stephanides, opens with the declaration: "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." Cal has a rare genetic condition — 5-alpha-reductase deficiency — that causes intersex development, a condition inherited from a recessive gene carried through three generations of the Stephanides family. To trace the origin of that gene, the novel must go back to the beginning: to Desdemona and Lefty Stephanides, Cal's grandparents, who were brother and sister, who fled Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, who reinvented themselves as cousins on the boat to America, and who settled in the Greek community of Detroit during Prohibition.
From there the novel traces the family through three generations and across the major upheavals of American twentieth-century history — Prohibition and the Ford assembly line, the Detroit race riots of 1967, the Vietnam era — before arriving at Cal's own story: a childhood as Callie, an adolescent discovery of an identity that the medical establishment and the social world around her cannot accommodate, and an eventual self-determined emergence as Cal. The narrative architecture is Eugenidean in its ambition — part family saga, part coming-of-age novel, part meditation on genetics and identity, part immigrant epic — and the voice that carries it, simultaneously intimate and panoramic, is one of the most sustained achievements in contemporary American fiction.
Very good. Some loss to cover gilt; very faint spotting to edge gilt. Contents otherwise fine.
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EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. Middlesex. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
8vo. Full grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Jeffrey Eugenides (b. 1960) was born in Detroit of Greek-American and Anglo-Irish descent, the combination of inheritances that provided the biographical raw material for his second novel. His first, The Virgin Suicides (1993), had established him immediately as one of the more original voices in American fiction; Middlesex, when it finally appeared nine years later, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and France's Prix Médicis, was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and has since sold more than three million copies. The New York Times Book Review called it "a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love." It was ranked eighteenth on the New York Times readers' list of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century.
The novel's narrator, Cal Stephanides, opens with the declaration: "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." Cal has a rare genetic condition — 5-alpha-reductase deficiency — that causes intersex development, a condition inherited from a recessive gene carried through three generations of the Stephanides family. To trace the origin of that gene, the novel must go back to the beginning: to Desdemona and Lefty Stephanides, Cal's grandparents, who were brother and sister, who fled Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, who reinvented themselves as cousins on the boat to America, and who settled in the Greek community of Detroit during Prohibition.
From there the novel traces the family through three generations and across the major upheavals of American twentieth-century history — Prohibition and the Ford assembly line, the Detroit race riots of 1967, the Vietnam era — before arriving at Cal's own story: a childhood as Callie, an adolescent discovery of an identity that the medical establishment and the social world around her cannot accommodate, and an eventual self-determined emergence as Cal. The narrative architecture is Eugenidean in its ambition — part family saga, part coming-of-age novel, part meditation on genetics and identity, part immigrant epic — and the voice that carries it, simultaneously intimate and panoramic, is one of the most sustained achievements in contemporary American fiction.
Very good. Some loss to cover gilt; very faint spotting to edge gilt. Contents otherwise fine.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000501
