The Virgin Suicides
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the...
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This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374284381 (0374284385)
ASIN: 0374284385
Publish date: 1993-04-01
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 249
Edition language: English
"When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly." The Virgin Suicides, on the surface, promises to be a sad, morbid tale of teen suicide – The Lisbon girls, the eldest being 17, kill themselves over a span of thirteen months. But Eugenides constructs the story so peculiarly that the conventional ...
Thought provoking and a little disturbing. My favorite by this author.
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