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The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780446670258 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
With startling immediacy and dark, deadpan humor, the collective narrator of The Virgin Suicides tells a story in a voice that speaks for an eclectic group of men who once stalked life's secrets on the lawns and sidewalks of an affluent American suburb in the seventies...men whose lives have been forever changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with the five doomed Lisbon sisters: brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia whose spectacular demise inaugurates "the year of the suicides."
Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes the reader back to the elm-lined streets of middle-class America, to the sights, the smells, and sensations of backyards and schoolyards filled with wonder and mystery. This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from critics and colleagues — a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination that no reader will soon forget.
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"A piercing first novel...lyrical and portentous." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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"Deftly written and intricately imagined...sizzling." Newsweek
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"Haunting...compelling...Eugenides creates an allegory so thought-provoking it leaves a profound, indelible impression." Harpers Bazaar
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"Weaves a sinuous spell...shot through with sneaky black humor...intoxicating." Esquire
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"Piercing....With its incantory 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
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"A rare first novel that ends wondrously, on a note of profoundest, most elegant grief." John Hawkes
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"Displays a certain brilliance...Eugenides has a voice dreamy with mythology and a point of view carved from the poignancy of adolescence. The resulting sensibility is both elegant and quirky, and it infuses his first novel with a graceful, reasoned confidence....Wistful, gloomy, and chillingly funny at once...A fiercely antipastoral novel – one with a shocking, elegiac sadness hidden in the eaves." Boston Globe
Synopsis:
Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with five doomed sisters: brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia, whose spectacular demise inaugurates "the year of the suicides". This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from the critics — a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination.
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Chirpee, May 10, 2007 (view all comments by Chirpee)
I was in the middle of another book when I picked this one up and read a couple of pages. I immediatley dropped the other novel, and read the rest of this one within the next few hours. I enjoyed the writing style, and the fact that Eugenides could make me smile while discussing such depressing topics made me both love the book more, and wonder about myself a little. It's an entertaining book that also SAYS something, and I would recommend it to almost anyone.
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Aranzazu, February 9, 2007 (view all comments by Aranzazu)
I was forced to read this book.
I am a member of a book club and "The Virgin Suicides" was a decission I never would take by myself to read _as this kind of stories make me creep. But I am grateful for having discovered Eugenides' clean and straight prose. The truth about the day-by-day hell those girls had to live makes you wonder not why they ended their lives, but how they could survive all those years before. Absolutely moving.
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christijensen, October 19, 2006 (view all comments by christijensen)
This is Eugenides rookie novel. Not necessarily the best-written book of all time, but the imagery is worth the time spent. Anyone who was a kid in the 70's-80's will absolutely be transported. Beautiful.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780446670258
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Warner Books
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Teenagers
- Subject:
- Memory
- Subject:
- Sisters
- Subject:
- Movie-TV Tie-In
- Subject:
- Teenage girls
- Subject:
- Suburban life
- Subject:
- Memory -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- United States -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Movie-TV Tie-In - General
- Subject:
- Media Tie-In - General
- Copyright:
- c199
- Series Volume:
- IX. Bd.
- Publication Date:
- June 1994
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 7.98x5.52x.77 in. .48 lbs.
