The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition): A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) by JeffreyEugenides, Emma Cline Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-30354-7, ISBN: 1-250-30354-0
"The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New Introduction by Emma ClineFirst published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters―beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys―commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe ..."
The Marriage Plot(Reprint) A Novel by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-01476-4, ISBN: 1-250-01476-X
"A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year byThe New York Times Book Review • NPR • The New Republic • Salon • The Seattle Times • Houston Chronicle • The Miami Herald • Publisher's Weekly "Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A grand romance in the Austen traditio ..."
Fresh Complaint(Reprint) Stories by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-19272-1, ISBN: 1-250-19272-2
"The first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American. The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich―and intriguing―territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Bas ..."
Fresh Complaint (Paperback) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-0-00-824380-7, ISBN: 0-00-824380-8
Fresh Complaint(1st Edition) Stories by JeffreyEugenides Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-20306-1, ISBN: 0-374-20306-7
"The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey EugenidesJeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The stories in “Fresh Complaint” explore equally rich––and intriguing––territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy ..."
The Marriage Plot(1st Edition) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-0-00-744130-3, ISBN: 0-00-744130-4
"A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by "The Seattle Times" - "The New Republic" - NPR - "Salon" - "The Telegraph" - "Publisher's Weekly" - "The New York Times Book Review" - "Houston Chronicle" - "The Miami Herald" "Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "A g ..."
The Marriage Plot(Large Print) by JeffreyEugenides Hardcover, 695 Pages, Published 2011 by Thorndike Press Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4104-4453-0, ISBN: 1-4104-4453-8
"It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.As Madeleine tries to understand why "it becam ..."
Middlesex Superb. a warm and beautifully writen novel that illuminates part of the human soul` Sunday Times by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-2569-3, ISBN: 1-4088-2569-4
"Middlesex is a significantly more ambitious and much odder novel than Jeffrey Eugenides' resonant debut, The Virgin Suicides (on DVD), which was a bittersweet paean to adolescent love. This is a sprawling family saga, bursting with life, which spans three generations and crosses several continents. At its core, however, is another unorthodox but exquisite coming-of-age story. The book's wily narrator and central character, Calliope St ..."
Middlesex(1st Edition) A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42773-3, ISBN: 0-312-42773-5
""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, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite ..."
""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, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite ..."
Middlesex(1st Edition) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage Canada Import ISBN-13: 978-0-676-97565-9, ISBN: 0-676-97565-8
""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, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite ..."
The Virgin Suicides(Reprint) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67025-8, ISBN: 0-446-67025-1
"An obsessive homage that begins as a detective story and ends without a solution. In a prosperous Detroit suburb during the early 1970s, all five daughters of the Lisbon family commit suicide in a succession of acts that stuns their friends as much by its incomprehensibility as its violence. One of the boys who grew up with the sisters attempts, 20 years after the fact, to uncover whatever secret motivated the girls and, through his sea ..."
"Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--“the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games” (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under ‘Local News': ‘In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'"So opens ..."
Fresh Complaint Stories by JeffreyEugenides 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71738-4, ISBN: 0-374-71738-9
"Narratively compelling, beautifully written, and packed with a density of ideas despite their fluid grace, these stories chart the development and maturation of a major American writer."
"50 Writers Remember College Hill Jeffrey Eugenides, Rick Moody, Lois Lowry,
Marilynne Robinson, Susan Cheever Judy Sternlight. artwork has also appeared
in the Village Voice, the Advocate, and Ms. ... ('90) istheeditor atlarge for Esquire
magazine, an NPR contributor, and the author of fourNew York Times bestselling
books, includingThe Yearof Living Biblically, The KnowItAll, and Drop Dead
Healthy. He lives in New York with his wif ..."
The Virgin Suicides by JeffreyEugenides 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-307-40193-9, ISBN: 0-307-40193-6
"She took one more step and her face reappeared. For a second it didn't seem
alive: it was too white, the cheeks too perfectly carved, the arched eyebrows
painted on, the full lips made ofwax. But then she came closer and we saw the
light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since. “We better take my mom's
car, don't you think? It's bigger. Which one of you can drive?” Chase Buell raised
his hand. “Think you can drive a station ..."
The Marriage Plot A Novel by JeffreyEugenides 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-6918-5, ISBN: 1-4299-6918-0
"“Heidi.” “Hi, Heidi.” Maybe it was her blush, or the tight fit of her sweater, or it was
just part of being a Superman within ... “Hi, Heidi.” “Hello,” she said. “Hi, Heidi,”
Leonard repeated. “Hi-de-ho. The Hi De Ho Man. Have you ever heard of the Hi ..."
Middlesex by JeffreyEugenides 544 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-307-40194-6, ISBN: 0-307-40194-4
"Last night I rode from Schoneberg to Orianenburgstrasse in Mitte. I met a friend
for a drink. Leaving, riding through the streets, I was hailed by the intergalactic
streetwalkers. In their Manga suits, their moon boots, they tossed their teased doll
's hair and called, Hallohallo. Maybe they would be just the thing for me.
Remunerated to tolerate most anything. Shocked by nothing. And yet, as I
pedaled past their lineup, their Stvic ..."
Middlesex(Updated) by JeffreyEugenides Paperback, 529 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6162-0, ISBN: 0-7475-6162-1
"'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license records my first name simply as Cal.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephan ..."