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In a quiet Michigan community in the mid-1970s, neighborhood boys try to piece together the lives of the five Lisbon sisters, kept isolated by their over-protective parents.
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course t...
In a quiet Michigan community in the mid-1970s, neighborhood boys try to piece together the lives of the five Lisbon sisters, kept isolated by their over-protective parents.
It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest Englis...
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to devel...
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 in our times. The stories in "Fresh Complaint" explore equally rich--and intr...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.
"Przekleństwa niewinności są cenną pozycją, ponadczasowym dokumentem odwiecznego niepokoju serca młodości i owocem pracy, który zasługuje na to, aby się nim delektować, cenić i dzielić z innymi." - Michael Munro Po raz pierwszy opublikowane w 1993, Przekleństwa niewin...
The long-awaited new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides. "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." --Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While eve...
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant fa...
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
"Monumentalną sagę o kazirodztwie pisał osiem lat, ale warto było. Na powieść Middlesex spłynęła lawina nagród, z Pulitzerem na czele". Newsweek Polska "Jedna z ciekawszych amerykańskich powieści ostatnich lat, wyróżniona Nagrodą Pulitzera w 2002 roku. Zaczyna się jak...