Amazingly, each short story mentions a sparrow somewhere, even in "The Dead" by James Joyce.
His latest book is the anthology of "Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro" which he edited. Amazingly, each short story mentions a sparrow somewhere, even in "The Dead" by James Joyce. His first novel is about four doomed teenaged sisters at the mercy of four neighborhood boys set in 1970s suburbia. That novel was adapted for the big screen and directed by a first-time woman director who eventually won an Oscar like her father and her grandfather. His second novel has its narrator Calliope described as "part Tristram Shanty, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield" before she undergoes an "Orlando" transformation, changing into Cal. For 10 points, name this editor of My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead and novelist of The Virgin Suicides and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex
His latest book is the anthology of "Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro" which he edited.
Jeffrey Eugenides