1993 1st Edition: Farrar, Straus And Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374284385 . Hardcover in dust jacket. Stated First edition. White cloth spine on orange boards, sharp and clean, mild shelf wear to edges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket, bright and clean, short closed tear to top front edge. Book is firm in binding, unread, crisp interior. The basis for the film. By the author of the Puiitzer Prize-winning novel "Middlesex. " Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 249 pages .

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The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers around the suicides of five sisters. The Lisbon girls' suicides fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for the acts. The book's first chapter appeared in Issue No. 117 of The Paris Review (Winter 1990), where it won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.

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Bookseller: KULTURAs books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10247
Title: The Virgin Suicides
Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Stated First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0374284385
ISBN 13: 9780374284381
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Place of Publication: 1993 1st Edition
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: 0374284385, American Fiction; Middlesex.

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