The Virgin Suicides (1993) - Jeffrey Eugenides
Category: Contemporary
Tags: Contemporary, Adults, Literature
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Release date: June 6, 2008 Duration: 08:35:50, In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sistersbeautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boyscommit 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 familys 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. The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life, Publishers Weekly Eugenidess tantalizing, macabre first novel begins with a suicide, the first of the five bizarre deaths of the teenage daughters in the Lisbon family; the rest of the work, set in the authors native Michigan in the early 1970s,
