The Virgin Suicides
$20.01
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2021
Summary
The Haunting Beauty of the Lisbon Sisters
The five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone – had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood.
Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up, they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. The question persists – why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?
This lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide transforms and mythologiz…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008485160 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 000848516X |
| Series: | Collins Modern Classics |
| Author: | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘A Catcher in the Rye for our time’ Observer
‘Entire and unstoppable … a sparkling work’ The Times
‘Wonderfully original’ Independent
‘Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller’s most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary’ New York Times
About The Author
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.
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