The Virgin Suicides
by Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NF. Light shelfwear./VG. Price clipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Seller
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Waterloo,, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
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
- Old Goat Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1139766
- Title
- The Virgin Suicides
- Author
- Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF. Light shelfwear.
- Jacket Condition
- VG. Price clipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 5x0x8
- Keywords
- DW 60/40
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