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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Author Biography

Name: Jeffrey Eugenides
Birth Date: c. 1960
Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Jeffrey Eugenides
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The author of two critically acclaimed novels, Jeffrey Eugenides is not afraid of taking chances with his fiction, or of getting it just right. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, is a tale of five teenaged sisters who one by one kill themselves, while...


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Middlesex Information
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Middlesex is a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was published in 2002 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. On June 5, 2007, Oprah Winfrey announced that the novel would be the summer 2007 selection for Oprah's Book Club. The narrator and...


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The novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, history, and contemporary American fiction.(Critical essay)
09/22/2007: 9,059 words, approx. 30 pages
Jeffrey Eugenides's 2002 Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel, has been praised as an expansive, epic portrait of the American twentieth century from its immigrant roots to the present. (1) It takes its readers from a Turkish village in the 1920s to the...
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Middlesex: A novel. (Fiction).(Audiobook Review)
12/02/2002: 261 words, approx. 1 pages
JEFFREY EUGENIDES, READ BY KRISTOFFER TABORI. Audio Renaissance, unabridged, 14 cassettes, 23 hrs., $49.95 ISBN 1-55927-780-7 Without a doubt, this audio edition of Eugenides's long-awaited second novel (after The Virgin Suicides) represents an acme of the audiobook genre: the whole equals much...
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Jewish cemetery vandalized; 4 arrested
1/10/2008: 261 words, approx. 1 pages
Four teenagers were arrested and charged with vandalizing a Jewish cemetery where hundreds of headstones were toppled, authorities said Thursday.The damage did not appear to be a bias crime, they said.About 500 headstones at the Poile Zedek Cemetery were toppled or broken apart the evening...
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Judge denies bail in family killings
12/19/2006: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
A judge on Tuesday refused to grant bail to a man charged with killing his wife and baby, denying a request to let the man return to his parents' home in England while awaiting his trial in the double slaying.Neil Entwistle, 28, is accused of...
 


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We Hope for Better Things; It Will Rise from the Ashes
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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