- Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides

By Jeffrey Eugenides
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30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR

The lyrical, timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.

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 mesmerising tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologises middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years.

‘A flare from my own secret world, all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 14 Sep 2023
Pages: 256
ISBN: 978-0-00-866708-5
Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of three novels. His first,The Virgin Suicides, was made into a film by Sofia Coppola. His second, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the WELT-Leteraturpreis and the Santiago de Compostela Literary Prize from Spain. Middlesex was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Médicis. In 2011, Eugenides published The Marriage Plot, which became a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Marriage Plot also won the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize in France. Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.

‘One of the finest novels in many years - a Catcher in the Rye for our time' Observer -

”'Eccentric, amusing, moving … Eugenides’s assured mixture of heartfelt nostalgia and dark humour makes for a mesmerising read” - Independent

”'A flare from my own secret world, all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form” - Emma Cline, author of The Girls

'Entire and unstoppable … a sparkling work' The Times -

”'Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary” - New York Times

”'Uncannily evokes the wry voice of adolescence and a mixture of curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism and naivety surrounding these bizarre events” - Wall Street Journal