Trial 2: The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides 

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides 

Description: Juxtaposing the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with five doomed sisters: brainy, Therese, fastidious Mary, acetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia, whose spectacular demise inaugurates “the year of the suicides.” This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from the critics—a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination. 

Edition: First Grand Central Publishing Edition, June 1994; Reissued, March 2000; Paperback 

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