The Virgin Suicides - Hardcover
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The Virgin Suicides in the pocket-sized Picador Modern Classics hardcover: Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 debut about the five Lisbon sisters.
In a Detroit suburb, five sisters die by their own hands within a year, and the boys who watched them from across the street spend the rest of their lives piecing together why. The narration is theirs, in the first person plural.
About this edition
Picador marked its twentieth year by shrinking four landmark titles to pocket size with a matching design; this is the one for Eugenides. It is a small hardcover, not a standard trade edition.
Good to know
Sofia Coppola filmed it; Eugenides went on to win the Pulitzer for Middlesex. Readers call it haunting and hard to put down, and some find the subject difficult to sit with.
From the publisher
"These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers!" - Metro
"Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover." - USA Today
The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. 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.
For more than twenty years, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from Manhattan's Flatiron Building.
Our Twentieth Anniversary Modern Classics line pairs iconic books - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - with a design that's both small enough to fit in your pocket and unique enough to stand out on your bookshelf.
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