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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 1st Edition - 1993 - from Ash Grove Heirloom Books and Biblio.com

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The Virgin Suicides

by Eugenides, Jeffrey

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover. Book and dust jacket have been dented on the back at the spine, resulting in a small closed tear..

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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