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Also by Jeffrey Eugenides:

The Marriage Plot, October 2011
Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides, May 2009
Paperback (reprint)
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, January 2008
Hardcover
Middlesex, June 2007
Paperback

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Now a film by Sofia Coppola

Picador
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 0312428812
EAN: 9780312428815
Paperback (reprint)
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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.

Adapted 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.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - December 28, 2011
All Things Considered - June 14, 2009