by Jeffrey Eugenides · FOURTH ESTATE LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008485160
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«The Virgin Suicides» is Jeffrey Eugenides's coming-of-age novel, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (243 pages, in English).
In a Detroit suburb, the five Lisbon sisters take their own lives over the course of a year. The neighborhood boys who watched them fascinated try years later to reconstruct the family's mystery. A novel about adolescent desire, obsession and death, with a hypnotic atmosphere and dark humor.
2021 edition in the Collins Modern Classics collection; the novel was adapted into a movie by Sofia Coppola.
Aimed at contemporary fiction readers interested in psychological atmospheres and coming-of-age plots.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
