title: The Handmaid's Tale (York Notes Advanced)
author:  Coral Ann Howells 
description: What do you get when a group of Harvard Students creates study guides for the 21st century? Better grades. Not long ago our writers were acing their classes. Now they're ...
zlib_text: ALSO BY JEFFREY EUGENIDES
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Virgin Suicides_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MIDDLESEX
  
  
  
  
  
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  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  
  
  19 Union Square West, New York 10003
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  Published simultaneously in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
  
  
  a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
  
  
  First edition, 2002
  
  
  
  
  
  Portions of this novel appeared, in different form, in _The New Yorker_ and
  _Granta_ .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The author would like to thank the Whiting Younger Writers’ Awards, the John
  Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
  Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the American Academy in Berlin, the
  MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Helen Papanikolas, and Milton Karafilis, for their
  help and support. In addition, the author would like to cite the following
  works from which he drew information crucial in the writing of _Middlesex_ :
  _The Smyrna Affair_ by Marjorie H