Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0307401944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.
Author: Larry S. Chowning
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780615698595
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Publisher: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE
Published: 2015-01-26
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Middlesex, squeezed up as it is among more expansive beauties, and too much overshadowed by the chimneys of Greater London, may not be thought of as a show county. But no shire need hang its head that contains such scenery, still hardly spoiled, as can be found about Hampstead Heath, Enfield Chase, Harrow Weald, and the leafy heights of Pinner, with many islets of pleasant greenery not yet drowned in the brick-and-mortar deluge. Its very misfortune of being so near a rich city contributes one feature of ornament in notably frequent parks, pleasure grounds, and gardens. Then its hills, vales, and woods can boast a special interest in having perhaps inspired more of our great poets than has any larger English county. The writer has explored it in every corner, marking out charms often neglected by those who hurry over its dusty or muddy high roads to reach neighbouring bounds that have not always a better right to give themselves airs of rurality.
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Collins (Publisher, of Glasgow.)
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Collins Sons and Co
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nevins memorial library, Methuen, Mass
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 522
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