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The virgin suicides

The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with lib...

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Main Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993.
Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition
Subjects:
Teenagers > Suicidal behavior > Fiction.
Suburban life > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Summary: The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
Physical Description: 243 pages
ISBN: 0374284385 :
9781250303547
Author Notes: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 8, 1960. He received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in English and creative writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to in 1993 and was made into a feature film. His other works include Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Marriage Plot. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

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