The Virgin Suicides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New Introduction by Emma ClineAdapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit 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 family's 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.
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Author
Jeffrey Eugenides
Pages
243
Publisher
Perfection Learning Corporation
Published Date
2019
ISBN
1663609500 9781663609502
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"love this book and movie"
Hayden Talley
"This was a beautiful book about the struggles of adolescence and teenage life in general. I definitely would read this book again, the way the words are used in the book just make it so pretty in an eerie, and almost creepy way. Overall amazing read, would recommend. "
Wren McConn
"what a great read, it definitely is an original and has its own style. definitely recommend! "
lina
"- This book made me remember why I hate men/boys POV in books. The way that they always sexualized and admitted that they didn’t see the Lisbon sisters as their own people. The hypersexuality from Lux is understandable (personal experience), I don’t judge her for that. Either way, these men sleeping with her WERE adults, fully grown, they should not have been sleeping with her in the first place - she was just a girl who was obviously struggling. Make adult men act like adult men, they know better!
~“I walked home that night. I didn’t care how she got home. … I just got sick of her right then.” -Trip after Lux cried in the middle of them fooling around
~“We decided the girls had been trying… to elicit our help all along, but we’d been too infatuated to listen.”
I get that it must be hard having a daughter commit suicide and the other four are depressed, but secluding them from the world and taking away the things that bring them joy is not helpful. It was so obvious that keeping them inside was slowly killing them. “…they were slowly wasting away.”
Therese trying to get some socialization by communicating through the radio to someone from a different country made me really sad for her. So did the basement being frozen in time from the night of the party a year earlier, when Ceceila jumped out the window to her death.
Anyway, if this book came out now Jeffery Eugenides would be cancelled, rightfully so. I’ve never liked ‘The Graduate’ but everyone else did. I feel the same way about this book. I liked the girls parts though."
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Hannah
"This book was amazing, the writing style was also very unique."
Harperus
"This is my favorite book i have read this year and it probably will be for awhile. But from the imagery to the character development it just truly painted a painful yet beautiful picture in the way sadness and suicide is romanticized in women. These girls are beyond gorgeous, so untouchable because of their parents. It makes them even more desirable alluding to how they were never properly understood."
Alyssa Jost
"Loved it but was really sad "
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