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Article: Culture: Facts with the fairytale touch; American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides (left) talks to Dagmar Winther about his long awaited follow-up to the Virgin Suicides.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2002
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Byline: Dagmar Winther
'Yes, I wanted to drop it many times,' says Jeffrey Eugenides. 'Especially in the first couple of years because I was having a hard time getting it going.
'But I had the idea for this book, and I couldn't give up the vision. So I doggedly pursued it until it began to give way and make progress. And it was, of course, waiting for me every morning. I enjoyed having such a faithful friend.'
Eugenides, 42, who visits the Birmingham Book Festival today, is talking about his new novel Middlesex. It has been nine years on the way, ...