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 The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
 The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides ... 2002-10-07 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNewest Review: ... interest is intensified one night when the youngest Lisbon girl, Cecilia, attempts suicide. Weeks later, she tries again, and ... more ... suceeds.
Suddenly, the Lisbon family becomes something mysterious and sordid. No one knows why Cecilia did what she did, and the narrators begin to document every movement of the Lisbon family that they can, collecting evidence.
When Lux Lisbon(incredibly precocious, and promicuous) starts missing curfews, after a romance with a high school boy, the girls are suddenly pulled out of school. The Father leaves work, and the family rarely leaves the house.
Their home falls into disrepair, and sightings of the girls beco...more |
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The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides: So young, so tragic, so beautiful. (1143 words)
by - written on 18/11/08 (Very useful, 217 readings)
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Every so often, I read a book that haunts me afterward. The Virgin Suicides has seeped into my everyday life. I read it in three hours,about two weeks ago, and I am not entirely sure it will ever leave me. Written by American author Jeffrey Eugenides in 1993, the book revolves around the suicides of five sisters in Grosse Point Michigan. This novel is immediately different to your run of the mill book. Its written in the first person plural, from the perspective of a group of teenage boys who try to piece together what happened to the sisters. It is written by *us*, and *we*. The narrator is never named, never singled out. Its ... Read the complete review
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