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The Virgin Suicides
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| Author | Jeffrey Eugenides |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 249 |
| ISBN | 0-374-28438-5 |
| OCLC | 26806717 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3555.U4 V57 1993 |
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,[1] and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola, starring Kirsten Dunst.
- ^ The Paris Review Archived 2009-10-13 at the Wayback Machine, The Paris Review.
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