Word: eugenidesã
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...don’t think I’ve ever seen a Princeton student smoke, but just look at all of you here,” remarked Jeffrey Eugenides??the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Middlesex” and “The Virgin Suicides”—of the cigarette smoke that veiled the audience and room at an event at The Harvard Advocate last Tuesday. After reading a passage from the novel that he is working on, Eugenides??a creative writing professor at Princeton and alum of Brown?...
...While Eugenides?? characters in successive novels remain in youth—from boys dealing with a town tragedy in “The Virgin Suicides,” to Cal coming of age in the flux of 20th century America, and to college students studying semantic theory while carrying on a passionate affair on the side—he continues to be surprised about how much can remember from his own recent past...
...girlfriend gave him, see. And he’s using it to find his way back out of the maze,” the young Calliope is told by her father. Drawing from the Greek heritage that the two of them share, Calliope Stephanides, the hermaphrodite narrator of Jeffrey Eugenides?? second novel “Middlesex” who will come to be known as Cal, follows the history of his family across two generations and one ocean in order to come to terms with the tragedy of his very existence. In tracing the thread...
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