Jeffrey Eugenides
Author profile
born
March 08, 1960
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
gender
male
genre
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Middlesex
— published 2002 — 65 editions |
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The Virgin Suicides
— published 1993 — 51 editions |
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The Marriage Plot
— published 2011 — 29 editions |
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My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
— published 2008 — 9 editions |
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Air Mail
— published 2003 — 3 editions |
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim , Jeffrey Eugenides — published 1974 — 19 editions |
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Second Skin
by John Hawkes, Jeffrey Eugenides — published 1964 — 5 editions |
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Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow, Jeffrey Eugenides — published 1975 — 32 editions |
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Thomas Demand
by Thomas Demand, Jeffrey Eugenides — published 2005 |
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Orlando
by Virginia Woolf, Jeffrey Eugenides , Tilda Swinton — published 1928 — 48 editions |
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October 2011,
Jeffrey Eugenides
"Three brainy Ivy Leaguers fumble in love in The Marriage Plot, a new novel from the author of Middlesex. Eugenides discusses the struggle between our heads and our hearts." ...More
"Three brainy Ivy Leaguers fumble in love in The Marriage Plot, a new novel from the author of Middlesex. Eugenides discusses the struggle between our heads and our hearts." ...More
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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
“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
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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