by Jeffrey Eugenides · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312428815
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«The Virgin Suicides» is the literary novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, published by Picador in paperback (243 pages, in English).
In a quiet Detroit suburb, the neighborhood boys remember the five Lisbon sisters, who took their own lives one after another in a single year. Fascinated and obsessed with them, they reconstruct the family's mystery to understand the melancholy and silence that surrounded their house.
The novel «The Virgin Suicides» is Jeffrey Eugenides's first, originally published in 1993; it was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola.
For book clubs and for those who enjoy literary fiction and coming-of-age stories.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
