Author:
Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Nov 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $49.95
Discs: 17
Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving to Detroit where the family settles, and ending up in San Francisco, where Cal's sexual ambiguity finds its proper home. A New York Times
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the Civil Rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a...
This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a...
Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together...
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and...
From the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, comes a spectacularly compelling second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in...
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. Composed with...
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva...
Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her...
" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect...
First of all, I should state that the reader, Kristoffer Tabori, is superb at capturing the European immigrant�s voice and attitude. His energetic, often humorous, reading made the many hours of listing to this very long book fly by. If there is a primary 'message' that Eugenides wanted to convey about gender it is probably that no amount of socialization being universally treated and accepted as one gender can overcome that person's pre-existing gender identity. This boy who thought he was and had always been treated as a girl was driven to what he believed were Lesbian desires because he could not alter or suppress his underlying gender identity. When you look at this central issue of the book's second half in this way, it seems that Eugenides has set up an elaborate, maybe improbable plot to make a fairly obvious point. But I think the strongest part of this book and the real reason to read it, is the hilarious and touching story of Greek immigrants and their children as*imilating into American society as best they can -- maybe not such an unusual story, but unusually well told in Middlesex.
This is one of the best audio books I have ever listened to! A combination of a fascinating story and a wonderful reader equals storytelling at it's best. This is a story rich with humor and sadness with ordinary heros.