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This nationally bestselling novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola. A haunting yet wickedly funny tale, The Virgin Suicides has captivated countless readers with its intoxicating portrait of lost innocence. The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie, and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys becomes obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don’t know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
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This nationally bestselling novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola. A haunting yet wickedly funny tale, The Virgin Suicides has captivated countless readers with its intoxicating portrait of lost innocence.
The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie, and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys becomes obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don’t know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
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Author Bio: Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France’s Prix Médicis was also selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The Marriage Plot was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. The Virgin Suicides was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola. He is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton.
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| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 8.60 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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