This article is about the novel. For the 1999 film, see The Virgin Suicides (film). For the film score, see The Virgin Suicides (score).
The Virgin Suicides
First edition
Author
Jeffrey Eugenides
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1993
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
249
ISBN
0-374-28438-5
OCLC
26806717
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Class
PS3555.U4 V57 1993
The Virgin Suicides is the debut novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The novel's first chapter appeared in The Paris Review in 1990,[1] and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola, starring Kirsten Dunst.
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