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Hermaphrodeity
Hermaphrodeity
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Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologist
harrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gender
surprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willie. This
legendary autobiography of M. W. Niemann earned nomination for
the National Book Award. It's a comic epic of sex, a subversive
saga of love. The mythic author's double-trouble organs--female
and male both--inspire a battle, inch by inch, from sensitive
girlhood to tough punk in a boys gang, from geeky Harvard Man to
alluring mistress of scientists and scions, from underage
physicist to stone age archaeologist, from father-motherhood
to fertility goddess, from hunted freedom fighter to visionary
tycoon, from infamous prisoner accused of treason...to celebrated
winner of the Nobel Prize in Poetry. These are the taboo
confessions of a literary titan, a poet who pursued science,
politics, and wealth. Even Divinity. Brilliant and learned,
Hermaphrodeity romps through the disputed geography of sex
until Millie/Willie, embodying the life force, plumbs the
ultimate secret of manwomankind.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateMar 6, 2002
ISBN9781532014826
Hermaphrodeity
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Alan H. Friedman

ALAN H. FRIEDMAN is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. He taught English and creative writing as a professor at Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he served as Director of the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English. He reviewed fiction for the New York Times Book Review from 1978 to 1998. He was nominated for the National Book Award in 1973 for his novel Hermaphrodeity. His short story Willy Nilly, published in the January, 1968 edition of New American Review, served as the basis for the 1987 film Something Special, directed by Paul Schneider. Alan H. Friedman was born January 4, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Harvard University in 1949, his M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University in 1950, and his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.

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