Virgin Suicides (Picador Modern Classics, 2)

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize?inning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot With a New Introduction 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?eautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys?ommit 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. 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.

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher: Picador Paper

Publication Date: Oct 02, 2018

Number of Pages: 269 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 1250303540

ISBN-13: 9781250303547