The Virgin Suicides
by Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis: This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates "the year of the suicides."
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Encanto Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20469
- Title
- The Virgin Suicides
- Author
- Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Drama, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mystery, Sleuths, The Virgin Suicides
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Fiction;
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About the Seller
Encanto Books
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Santa Monica, California
About Encanto Books
Encanto Books represents a collection of approximately 5,000 first edition books, comprised primarily of hardcover fiction, but includes a sizable number of 1950s and 1960s pulp paperback publications as well. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930s Depression era all the way to the present day, the collection has something of interest for virtually any serious antiquarian. A majority of the books for sale are true first editions; many of these are signed editions, too. Encanto books has succeeded in collecting virtually the entire output from some of the greatest American mystery writers ever.