| Binding | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Publication Year | 1993 |
| Length | 0.98 inch |
| Extras | Publisher |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Publication Year | 1993 |
| Length | 0.98 inch |
| Extras | Publisher |
The Virgin Suicides is unlike any other novel you will read this year - a haunting, tender, and wickedly funny tale of love and terror, memory and imagination, sex and suicide. It is told by a "collective" narrator whose wry, intelligent voice speaks for an eclectic band of teenage trespassers who once roamed the lawns and sidewalks of their placid suburban neighborhood like so many sleuths. Their obsession: the mysterious Lisbons - brainy Therese (17), fastidious Mary (16), ascetic Bonnie (15), libertine Lux (14), and the youngest, pale, saintly Cecilia (13), whose spectacular demise by self-defenestration onto an iron fence inaugurates "the year of the suicides." Now, nearly twenty years later, the narrator and his friends piece together fragments of gossip and hearsay, overheard phone conversations, police reports, newspaper clippings, and sultry, whispered confessions - all the gathered evidence that forms the tragic family romance of The Virgin Suicides.
The Virgin Suicides is unlike any other novel you will read this year - a haunting, tender, and wickedly funny tale of love and terror, memory and imagination, sex and suicide. It is told by a "collective" narrator whose wry, intelligent voice speaks for an eclectic band of teenage trespassers who once roamed the lawns and sidewalks of their placid suburban neighborhood like so many sleuths. Their obsession: the mysterious Lisbons - brainy Therese (17), fastidious Mary (16), ascetic Bonnie (15), libertine Lux (14), and the youngest, pale, saintly Cecilia (13), whose spectacular demise by self-defenestration onto an iron fence inaugurates "the year of the suicides." Now, nearly twenty years later, the narrator and his friends piece together fragments of gossip and hearsay, overheard phone conversations, police reports, newspaper clippings, and sultry, whispered confessions - all the gathered evidence that forms the tragic family romance of The Virgin Suicides.
The Virgin Suicides is unlike any other novel you will read this year - a haunting, tender, and wickedly funny tale of love and terror, memory and imagination, sex and suicide. It is told by a "collective" narrator whose wry, intelligent voice speaks for an eclectic band of teenage trespassers who once roamed the lawns and sidewalks of their placid suburban neighborhood like so many sleuths. Their obsession: the mysterious Lisbons - brainy Therese (17), fastidious Mary (16), ascetic Bonnie (15), libertine Lux (14), and the youngest, pale, saintly Cecilia (13), whose spectacular demise by self-defenestration onto an iron fence inaugurates "the year of the suicides." Now, nearly twenty years later, the narrator and his friends piece together fragments of gossip and hearsay, overheard phone conversations, police reports, newspaper clippings, and sultry, whispered confessions - all the gathered evidence that forms the tragic family romance of The Virgin Suicides.
The Virgin Suicides is unlike any other novel you will read this year - a haunting, tender, and wickedly funny tale of love and terror, memory and imagination, sex and suicide. It is told by a "collective" narrator whose wry, intelligent voice speaks for an eclectic band of teenage trespassers who once roamed the lawns and sidewalks of their placid suburban neighborhood like so many sleuths. Their obsession: the mysterious Lisbons - brainy Therese (17), fastidious Mary (16), ascetic Bonnie (15), libertine Lux (14), and the youngest, pale, saintly Cecilia (13), whose spectacular demise by self-defenestration onto an iron fence inaugurates "the year of the suicides." Now, nearly twenty years later, the narrator and his friends piece together fragments of gossip and hearsay, overheard phone conversations, police reports, newspaper clippings, and sultry, whispered confessions - all the gathered evidence that forms the tragic family romance of The Virgin Suicides.
