Virgin Suicides
30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
The lyrical, timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.
The five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone – had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood.
Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up, they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. The question persists – why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?
This mesmerising tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologises middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years.
‘A flare from my own secret world, all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls
Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of three novels. His first,
The Virgin Suicides, was made into a film by Sofia Coppola. His second, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the WELT-Leteraturpreis and the Santiago de Compostela Literary Prize from Spain. Middlesex was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Médicis. In 2011, Eugenides published The Marriage Plot, which became a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Marriage Plot also won the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize in France. Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.