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The Virgin Suicides is the debut novel by American author 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.
Jan 1, 1993 · hauntingly written and eerily atmospheric, tinted with 1970s hues of american suburbia, the virgin suicides is narrated by a greek chorus of unnamed men, looking back on their teenage years and the suicides of the 5 beautiful lisbon sisters who lived in their neighbourhood.
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Mar 29, 2018 · The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides’ beloved cult-favorite novel, is centered on the idea of legacy. Narrated by a collective “we,” a group of anonymous neighborhood...
May 10, 2024 · Eugenides had a breakthrough in 1990 when The Paris Review published his short story “The Virgin Suicides,” which won the literary journal’s Aga Khan Prize the following year. Inspired, Eugenides began expanding the story into a novel.
Apr 27, 2009 · 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.
Oct 2, 2018 · In one of the great feats of voice, “The Virgin Suicides” is narrated by a Greek chorus of unnamed men, looking back on their adolescence and the suicides of five girls in their Michigan suburb.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993. The novel is narrated by a group of boys who are obsessed with the five Lisbon sisters, beautiful and enigmatic young women who all commit suicide within the span of a year.
