Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Collins
23 February 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Sagas

Series: Collins Modern Classics

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Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Imprint: Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780008553807
ISBN 10: 0008553807
Series: Collins Modern Classics
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 23 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France's Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.

Reviews for Middlesex

'A masterful dissection and reassembling of the American Dream into a shape you will not quite have seen anywhere before' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Warm and beautifully written. Illuminates part of the human soul' Sunday Times 'Truly original and compelling' Daily Mail 'Eugenides is a big and a big-hearted talent' Jonathan Franzen