Jeffrey Eugenides

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

"The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together...

„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 niewinności oznajmiły nadejście nowego amerykańskiego pisarza. Na cichych przedmieściach Detroit pięć sióstr Lisbon – pięknych, ekscentrycznych, obsesyjnie

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For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the...

A tale set in 1970s suburbia follows the experiences of a group of teenage boys whose lives have been irrevocably changed by their desire to save five doomed sisters who have been isolated by their parents.

This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future; and a high school...

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.

"Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally's objections, decides it's time to have a baby. She is determined to get what she wants, even if it means doing it by herself with a little help from a charming sperm donor. Unbeknownst to her, a last-minute switch occurs that isn't discovered until seven years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassie's cute, though slightly neurotic, son."--