A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and **The Marriage Plot
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**With a New Introduction by Emma Cline
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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.
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.
Publication
1993
Pages
249
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Collection
Picador Modern Classics
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