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1) Middlesex
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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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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C.N. Potter
Pub. Date
c1983
Edition
1st ed. --.
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Completed while he was dying, William Goyen's Arcadio is one of the most affecting and imaginative farewells to life ever written. Arcadio, whose voice is inimitably Goyenesque, is a creature from beyond the normal walk of life. Half man, half woman, raised in a whorehouse and for years the veteran exhibitionist in an itinerant circus sideshow, he has escaped from the show and has been wandering in a quest for his lost family. Speaking intimately...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he's the perfect son, the perfect friend, and the perfect crush for the girls in his school. He's even really nice to his little brother. Karen, Max's mother, is a highly successful criminal lawyer, determined to maintain the facade of effortless excellence she has constructed through the years. Now that the boys are getting older, now that she won't have as much control, she worries...
4) XXY
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex, who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son, Alvaro. Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which...
5) Herculine Barbin: being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite
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Harvester Press
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
"With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her own day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Designated female at birth, a pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another school-mistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at...
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2002]
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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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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