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30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONThe lyrical, timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.

Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.

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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.

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.

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Virtuos, anrührend und mit großer Menschenkenntnis erzählt der Autor der Weltbestseller «Middlesex» und «Die Liebeshandlung» über Liebe, Hoffnung, Identität und die Angst, am Alltag zu zerbrechen.«Der Epiker Eugenides ist auch ein Artist der Kurzstrecke», lobte der Spiegel. Seine Erzählungen lesen sich wie kondensierte Romane. Es geht um Menschen in Schwierigkeiten. Da ist beispielsweise ein Familienvater, der im Garten sitzt und auf sein Haus...

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La scoperta della propria sessualità, il tumulto dell'adolescenza, l'amore dentro e fuori la famiglia: sono i temi che hanno fatto la fortuna dei romanzi di Jeffrey Eugenides e che ora tornano in questa raccolta di racconti. "Una cosa sull'amore" ha per protagonisti uomini e donne nel mezzo di una crisi personale o del mondo che li circonda, del loro paese. Un poeta fallito e roso dall'invidia che si trasforma in abile truffatore negli anni de...

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Spätestens seit seinem Weltbestseller "Middlesex" wissen wir, dass Jeffrey Eugenides über Liebe, Ehe und Familie auf geradezu süchtig machende Weise schreiben kann. Die Sammlung von Erzählungen, in Amerika seine erste überhaupt, zeigt ihn nun wieder auf der Höhe seiner Kunst. "Das große Experiment " handelt von Menschen, die in Schwierigkeiten stecken - meist sind es Ehepaare, Paare. Da ist ein Familienvater, der im Garten an der Feuerstelle...

The stories in "FRESH COMPLAINT" explore rich--and intriguing--territory. 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.

Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

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 "Baster" to...

A raccontarci una ben strana vicenda, con una voce avvolgente che si impone fin dalle prime righe, è Calliope Stephanides, una rara specie di ermafrodito che ha vissuto i primi anni della sua vita come bambina, per poi scoprire la sua doppia natura. Responsabile della sua "eccentricità biologica" è un gene misterioso che attraversa come una colpa tre generazioni della sua famiglia e che ora si manifesta nel suo corpo. Inizia così l'odissea di ...

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Paperback edition of Eugenides' highly acclaimed latest novel, set in the early 1980s among a group of American college students. From the author of "The Virgin Suicides", which has sold more than 100, 000 copies and was adapted into a successful film, and "Middlesex", which sold more than 3 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. Eugenides has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being. "Los Angeles Times

Una novela sin igual que narra la increíble vida de una adolescente en un cuerpo equivocado.Todo comienza cuando los abuelos de Cal huyen a América tras la guerra, a casa de su prima Lina y su marido. Las dos parejas tendrán a sus hijos casi al mismo tiempo, y éstos, en un juego de consanguinidades se casarán y serán los padres de Cal. Que cuando nace es Calliope, y parece destinada a encarnar la leyenda sobre esas niñas que cuando llegaban a ...