The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age thriller novel and the debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person …
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The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age thriller novel and the debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The novel's first chapter appeared in The Paris Review in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola, starring Kirsten Dunst.
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The Virgin Suicides
250 pages
English language
Published 2002
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-6059-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 10956
The Virgin Suicides
243 pages
English language
Published 2010
- ISBN:
- 978-0-312-42881-5Copied ISBN!
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- 5188591
The virgin suicides
249 pages
English language
Published 1993 by Warner Books.
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- 978-0-446-67025-8Copied ISBN!
The Virgin Suicides
266 pages
Italian language
Published 1999
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-45993-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 3940499
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