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Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell

Jeffrey Eugenides

‘The playfulness of the language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material.’

Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit in 1960 and grew up in the city's suburbs. In 1996 he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides has been made into a film. His second novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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