Haunting, disturbing and yet subtle - this book was a remarkable read. Eugenides' dreamlike prose made this harrowing tale almost magical, I haven't read a book like it for a long, long time. The fact that it's interspersed with dark humour made me love it even more. The characters are completely e...
One of my friends that is as obsessed with reading as I am proposed this read to me a while back, but I haven't really paid any attention to the book until about a week ago, when I read an amazing review concerning it. When my friend brought the book to me, I wasn't impressed with it's cover or with...
The metonymic treatment of the Lisbon girls for some larger tapestry of childhood innocence or idealism seemed a bit too much for me, and Eugenides' reach for something like a dimmed-down Nabokovian effect in the vein of dark comedy and buoyant prose felt a little bit like a failure. Eugenides is a ...
One of those novels which fully deserve to command the cult fan following they already do. Written in the third person narrative mode, Jeffrey Eugenides' debut is a black comedy in all its essence. Alternately grim in its portrayal of the sense of isolation that characterizes every individual's teen...
This is a story of a family of five young daughters who within the space of one-year all commit suicide and how it affected the boys who worshiped them without really knowing them at all. Not the average subject matter but the author told it well.
"With most people," he said, "suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impos...
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