Jeffrey Eugenides
1) Middlesex
Author
Language
English
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011
It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder
Author
Language
English
Description
"The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving." --
Author
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.
5) Middlesex
Author
Publisher
D. Quixote
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Portuguese
Description
«Abarcando oito décadas e uma adolescência particularmente complicada, o tão aguardado segundo romance de Jeffrey Eugenides é uma fábula grandiosa e absolutamente original de genealogias trocadas, explorando as complexiades do género e as motivações caóticas e profundas do desejo.» Jeffrey Eugenides nasceu em 1960, em Detroit, Michigan. Formado pela Universidade de Brown, obteve o mestrado em Inglês e Escrita Criativa na Universidade de...
Author
Language
English
Description
In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories-many published for the first time-about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Español
Formats
Description
En menos de un año y medio, cinco hermanas adolescentes hijas de una católica ferviente que no las dejaba salir con chicos, se suicidaron. Veinte años después, varios hombres que fueron sus vecinos intentan desentrañar el enigma de esas muertes relacionadas con los misterios de la feminidad y el deseo. Una espléndida primera novela que ha sido llevada al cine con gran éxito por Sophia Coppola.
11) American beauty
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
American beauty: The lives and marriage of a seemingly ordinary couple begin slowly unraveling. The virgin suicides: Five teenaged sisters who are isolated by their over-protective parents become engulfed in a stunning chain of events.
Series
Best American ; 2019
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
