Jeffrey Eugenides
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
3) Middlesex
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in 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...