Jeffrey Eugenides




Jeffrey Eugenides

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born April 13, 1960
gender male
place of birth Detroit, Michigan, United States
genre Literature & Fiction

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (b. April 13, 1960, Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.

books by Jeffrey Eugenides

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avg rating: 4.02 | 44489 ratings | 10 distinct works
Middlesex Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 4.07 — 33108 ratings — published 2002
35 editions
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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 3.78 — 5798 ratings — published 1994
21 editions
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Thomas Demand Thomas Demand (Hardcover)
by Roxana Marcoci, Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 2008
6 editions
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James Casebere: The Spacial Un... James Casebere: The Spacial Uncanny (Hardcover)
by Christopher Chang, Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2001
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The New Yorker Out Loud The New Yorker Out Loud (Audio CD)
by Steven Millhauser, Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1998
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Air Mail Air Mail (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
3 editions
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Eugenik und die Zukunft Eugenik und die Zukunft (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2005
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Early Music. CD Early Music. CD (Audio CD)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2007
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ミドルセックス ミドルセックス (単行本)
by ジェフリー・ユージェニデス, Jeffrey Eugenides
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2004
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quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

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"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
Jeffrey Eugenides
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"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
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"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. "
Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
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