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Narrated by:
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Kristoffer Tabori
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Written by:
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Jeffrey Eugenides
About this listen
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, 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 physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation - and a guilty secret - that have followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun.
Spanning eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
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.
©2002 Jeffrey Eugenides (P)2002 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLCWhat the critics say
Audie Award Winner, Fiction (Unabridged), 2003
"Eugenides proves that he is not only a unique voice in modern literature but also well versed in the nature of the human heart. Highly recommended." (Library Journal )
"Not only are his interpretations of the characters astonishingly credible, but his internalization of the narrative is nothing short of amazing." (Publishers Weekly)
"A towering achievement...a story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent...[Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
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- Nora Ohanjanians
- 2021-04-28
A True Treat
An epic of a story, covering three generations and a few decades, written in an explosive prose, with a unique, distinct, passionate narrator, Middlesex is a profound examination of life, human behaviour and psyche, family, ethnicity, race, crime, religion, history, and many other topics.
This novel is a true treat.
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- Derek Kitchen
- 2018-08-24
An epic story of life in 20th century America
loved the story which really captures 20th century Detroit, and anyone who has ever been otherized will relate to this. Shameful that the narrator mispronounced so many of the local Detroit places.
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- jaret
- 2022-12-24
Fairly entertaining
Book was decent kept my attention fairly well, definitely room to improve. But all around decent read
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- Mikey
- 2023-02-06
Great story
I read this book years ago, but enjoyed it even more listening to it again.
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- J. McIntyre
- 2019-10-24
Great story and amazing performance!
Beautifully written but not pretentious. I especially enjoyed the narrator - he really brought to story to life for me. Hard to imagine anyone else doing it better. The story is even more relevant today.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-02-01
Amazingly entertaining narrator!
Just fantastic. The story, the author’s skill blew me away. I highly recommend this audio version.
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- Shelley Olson
- 2019-06-04
The Narration was AMAZING!
This book is more salient now, than when I read it the first time years ago. It is an intensely personal story with a host of characters raw and real. The first person point of view, coupled with shifts in time and place, is critical to the stories layers - yet there is never a moment where you think: wait, where are we now? The humour and honesty of the narrator made me smile one moment, laugh out loud, and then want to cry for all of the sadness that was endured. The story is interesting and it simply did not feel as long as it is. I will probably listen again in a few years as it was hard to let go of the story.
Critical to it all: the performance of Kristofffer Tabori is one of the best in the nearly 800 audio books I have in my library. Truly incredible voices he performs; voices that brought the characters all to life.
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- Mlle. Coco
- 2023-05-16
Epic Novel
I am an avid reader and I read several books at a time. I stopped everything to listen to this beautifully written novel.
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- Dana G
- 2022-10-24
Loved this book!
I was somewhat dubious about this book due to the unusual subject matter, but it was absolutely wonderful. I fell in love with Kal/Kaliope straight away, not to mention many of the other characters. For any who have their doubts like I did, this is not a story about a hermaphrodite as much as it is a story about a human being experiencing all the ups and downs of life and coming of age. I font think anyone would be disappointed in this book.
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