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The Virgin Suicides

September 20, 2011 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780307401922
$21.00
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Description

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

About this Author

JEFFREY EUGENIDES was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicis, and has sold more than 3 million copies.

ISBN: 9780307401922
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2011-09-20

Reviews

"Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Compelling . . . funny, poignant."
--The Miami Herald
 
"The beginning of a major career."
--Entertainment Weekly
 
"Haunting . . . leaves a profound, indelible impression."
--Harper's Bazaar
 
"Eugenides weaves a sinuous spell. . . . Intoxicating."
--Esquire
 
"Extraordinary."
--Mademoiselle

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