The Virgin Suicides
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…
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September 20, 2011
JEFFREY EUGENIDES is the son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. The Virgin Suicides was first published in 1993 to rapturous acclaim and it has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, his second novel, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jeffrey Eugenides's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review and Granta. Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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