The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and ***The Marriage Plot
**With a New Introduction by Emma Cline
**
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.
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.