Middlesex (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$100 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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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, Michiga

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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