Jeffrey Eugenides, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-19969-2
As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to know as much about the chemical details of their ancestry as Victorian heroes knew about their estates. If so, Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides) is ahead...
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Jeffrey Eugenides, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (249p) ISBN 978-0-374-28438-1
Eugenides's tantalizing, macabre first novel begins with a suicide, the first of the five bizarre deaths of the teenage daughters in the Lisbon family; the rest of the work, set in the author's native Michigan in the early 1970s, is a backward-lookin
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Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-20305-4
Eugenides's first novel since 2002's Pulitzer Prize–winning Middlesex so impressively, ambitiously breaks the mold of its predecessor that it calls for the founding of a new prize to recognize its success both as a novel—and as a Jeffrey Eugenides...
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Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-20306-1
Best known for the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Middlesex, Eugenides here collects the stories he has been steadily producing through the years. The earliest story, “Capricious Gardens,” originates from Eugenides’s M.F.A. thesis. In it, two American
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Jeffrey Eugenides, read by David Pittu. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1308-2
In Eugenides’s perceptive new novel set in the early 1980s, the three sides of a love triangle—Brown University undergraduates Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—come of age in a complicated and heady environment of semiotics, religious mysticism,...
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Jeffrey Eugenides, Author, Kristoffer Tabori, Read by , read by Kristoffer Tabori. Audio Renaissance $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55927-780-8
Without a doubt, this audio edition of Eugenides's long-awaited second novel (after The Virgin Suicides) represents an acme of the audiobook genre: the whole equals much more than the sum of its parts. This is simultaneously the tale of a gene...
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Edited by Judy Sternlight. Simon & Schuster, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6519-8
This appealing collection, edited by Brown alum Sternlight, is neither an ode to the institution nor a glossy publicity stunt marking the university’s 250th anniversary. It’s a relaxed roundtable of reminiscences from accomplished graduates—writers,
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