Middlesex
novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Summary
Middlesex is a literary work[1]. Middlesex ranks in the top 2% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,310 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: Jeffrey Kent Eugenides[3]
- Award received: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[4], Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela estranxeira[5]
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux[6]
- Genre: intersex fiction[7], bildungsroman[8], family saga[9], historical fiction[10]
- Language of work or name: English[11]
- Country of origin: United States[12]
- Inception: 2002[13]
- Publication date: September 4, 2002[14]
- Has edition or translation: Middlesex[15]
- Narrative location: Detroit[16]
- Described by source: "Theory Uncompromised by Practicality": Hybridity in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex[17], “Sing now, O Muse, of the recessive mutation”: Interrogating the Genetic Discourse of Sex Variation with Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex[18], Retrospective Sex: Rewriting Intersexuality in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex[19], D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex[20], Why Jeffrey Eugenides'MiddlesexIs So Inoffensive[21]
- Title: Middlesex[22]
- Form of creative work: novel[23]
Why It Matters
Middlesex has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Middlesex is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]
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What awards did Middlesex receive?
Honors received include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[4] and Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela estranxeira[5].