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Criterion collection ; 920Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But 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 English novels. As...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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Summary: 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; and a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC EUGEugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: Over the course of a year, the five beautiful Lisbon sisters commit suicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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Summary: 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 to see what all the fuss is about, and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EUGEugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: 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 develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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Summary: This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. 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 collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EUGEugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EUGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EUGDunst, Kirsten
Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VIRSummary: Kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman, despite her neurotic best friend Wally's objections, decides it's time to have a baby, even if it means doing it herself, with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie's plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn't discovered until seven years later, when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie's cute, though...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SWI RATED PG-13Summary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019