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A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the main focus of this brilliantly written story is the confusion we all face as we grow into the person we were meant to be. The reader finds himself identifying with the main character's experiences. This is a brilliantly written story. The prose is honest in a way that few authors dare to write. Every word, every action, every thought, is symbolic of the common human experience.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 546
- Publisher
- RBA, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- German, Portuguese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780374704346
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“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.”
Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
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