The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Author: Jeffrey EugenidesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-04-01
ISBN: 0374284385
Number of pages: 249
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffery Eugenides, is a rare gem.
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I have read many books that touched my soul and made me rethink others around me, The Virgin Suicides was a wake-up call. The hypnotic narration by an unidentified teenage boy puts the reader into a comatose like state; to put the book down would be like making yourself bleed. Five lovely, enchanting Lisbon sisters, Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux, and Cecilia are all different in many ways. They are the obsessions of adolescent boys in a suburb. Their lovely faces haunt their dreams. The suicide of the youngest, Cecilia, is a shock when she impales herself on the Lisbon fence. The second youngest, Lux, is rebellious, angry, and full of sorrow. Her path of self-destruction pulls the other girls down with her when her over-protective Catholic parents basically shut the girls up inside their house. The communication between the ring of teenage boys is a shock. We never heard from our narrator that they had been acknowledged before by the Lisbon girls. Their suicides, with the boys ready to whisk them away to freedom, is more a shock to the reader than the boys.The Virgin Suicides is beautiful and haunting. It will linger painfully in the mind for years.
Summary of The Virgin Suicides
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter?s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates ?the year of the suicides.?
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