The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

PS3555.U4

Description

The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.

Collection

Rating

½ (3652 ratings; 3.8)

Publication

Picador (2009), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 256 pages

Pages

256

Physical description

256 p.; 8.22 inches

Media reviews

Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.
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Adopting a tone simultaneously elegiac and loony, The Virgin Suicides takes the dark stuff of Greek tragedy and reworks it into an eccentric, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious American fantasy about the tyranny of unrequited love, and the unknowable heart of every family on earth — but especially
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the family next door.
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LCC

PS3555.U4

Language

ISBN

0312428812 / 9780312428815
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