Jeffrey Eugenides
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born
April 13, 1960
gender
male
place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, The 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.
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 3.99 — 69,278 ratings — published 2002 43 editions |
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 3.74 — 12,648 ratings — published 1993 29 editions |
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 3.93 — 496 ratings — published 2008 10 editions |
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Thomas Demand by Roxana Marcoci, Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2005 |
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Air Mail by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2003 3 editions |
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2007 |
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The New Yorker Out Loud by Steven Millhauser, Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1998 |
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Der Spatz meiner Herrin ist tot: Große Liebesgeschichten der Weltliteratur by Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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James Casebere: The Spacial Uncanny by Christopher Chang, Jeffrey Eugenides avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2001 |
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"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
— Jeffrey Eugenides
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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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)
— Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. "
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
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