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The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community Read More..

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Description	The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for their tragic acts. The book's first chapter appeared in The Paris Review in 1990, The Paris Review, The Paris Review. and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys whose lives were changed by their obsession with the Lisbons. The narrators rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades since the events to construct the tale. Eugenides told 3am Magazine: "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". 3ammagazine.comThe novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola as her directorial debut.
Description	The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for their tragic acts. The book's first chapter appeared in The Paris Review in 1990, The Paris Review, The Paris Review. and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys whose lives were changed by their obsession with the Lisbons. The narrators rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades since the events to construct the tale. Eugenides told 3am Magazine: "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". 3ammagazine.comThe novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola as her directorial debut.

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Name	The Virgin Suicides
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Authors	Jeffrey Eugenides
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Pages	249 pp
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	0-374-28438-5
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Oclc	26806717
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Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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