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Middlesex
A Novel
Unabridged
By (author):
Jeffrey Eugenides
Read by:
Kristoffer Tabori
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Read by :
Kristoffer TaboriImprint:
Macmillan AudioISBN:
9781593977344Product Form:
CD-AudioForm detail:
CD standard audio format
CD-Audio
, CD standard audio format
English
Audience:
General Trade
Nov 01, 2004
$54.95 CAD
Out of print
Dimensions:
5.87in x 5.26 x 2.19 in | 410 grIllustrations:
Includes 17 CDs with a run time of 21 hours
Macmillan Audio
FICTION / Literary
ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book 2005, Commended
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee 2004, Nominated
Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials 2007, Long-listed
ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book 2003, Commended
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee 2002, Nominated
Pulitzer Prize - Winner 2003, Winner
(Selected for) Oprah's Book Club 2007, Long-listed
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nominee 2002, Nominated
National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee 2002, Nominated
Great Lakes Book Award - Winner 2003, Winner
Ambassador Book Award - Winner 2003, Winner
Audie Award Winner 2003, Winner
- Description
- Author Bio
- Reviews
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City, 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 in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite.
Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenide's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola. Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicis, and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. It has sold more than four million copies.
Kristoffer Tabori has been involved in the world of television, film and theatre since he was six years old. As a director he won an Emmy, was nominated for a DGA award, and was the recipient of The Theatre World Award, The LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Award, and ten Drama-logue Awards. He has lent his voice to a number of films including Alpha Protocol, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition, Endwar, and Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Kristoffer has read a range of Earphones Award-winning audiobooks. His work includes narrating Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, Jack Finny's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the compilation Tales for a Stormy Night.
“Jeffrey Eugenides is a big and big-hearted talent, and Middlesex is a weird, wonderful novel that will sweep you off your feet.” —Jonathan Franzen
“The author is a gifted storyteller who relates 10 decades of one Greek family's life with evocative words and poignant images, which please the ear and mind. Kristoffer Tabori's dramatization gives a strong sense that he's savoring the telling.” —Audio File
“Without a doubt, this audio edition of Eugenide's long-awaited second novel represents an acme of the audiobook genre: the whole equals more than the sum of its parts…Tabori's performance of the text is phenomenal…Not only are his interpretations of the characters astonishingly credible, but his internalization of the narrative is nothing short of amazing.” —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
“What made me fall in love with audiobooks was not so much the story (which is amazing), but rather the narration of the book done by Kristoffer Tabori. This performance, for me, elevated audiobooks from a convenient way to get more books ‘read' to an actual performance art.” —Brain Candy Book Reviews
