The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
A Novel
ISBN10: 1250303540
ISBN13: 9781250303547
Trade Paperback
272 Pages
$18.00
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.
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Praise for The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
"Piercing . . . With its incantatory prose, its fascination with teenage tragedy, and its preoccupation with memory and desire and loss . . . The Virgin Suicides insinuates itself into our minds as a small but powerful opera in the unexpected form of a novel."—The New York Times
“Mr. 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
“Arresting . . . uncannily evokes the wry voice of adolescence and a mixture of curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism, and the naïveté surrounding these bizarre events.”—The Wall Street Journal
"Displays a certain brilliance . . . Eugenides has a voice dreamy with mythology and a point of view carved from the poignancy of adolescence."—The Boston Globe
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On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven,...
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A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide.
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