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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I picked this one up because I loved Eugenides's other book, Middlesex. It certainly doesn't have the scope of its successor, but it was a decent read nonetheless. The story takes place in 1970s Detroit. Though its focus is the five teenage Lisbon sisters who all commit suicide in the span of one year, the actual subjects are the teenage boys in the neighborhood who are obsessed with them. The narrative is in the unexpected first person plural, which actually works quite well in this instance. I'm having trouble summing up my thoughts; the story was interesting but didn't really go anywhere. You only get to know the characters - even the boys - on the surface, never delving more deeply into motivation or real emotion. It's a sad tale, and I enjoyed it on that level, but at the end I felt the same as at the beginning: a little puzzled, a little sad, a little apathetic. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |  This book renewed my love for and faith in the novel. (  ) alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | This book renewed my love for and faith in the novel. ( ) alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | This book renewed my love for and faith in the novel. ( ) alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | An interesting look into suburbia and the pressures of being a teenager in contemporary America. ( ) katydid-it | Sep 14, 2009 | 
 Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.  Adopting a tone simultaneously elegiac and loony, The Virgin Suicides takes the dark stuff of Greek tragedy and reworks it into an eccentric, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious American fantasy about the tyranny of unrequited love, and the unknowable heart of every family on earth — but especially the family next door.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446670251, Paperback)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.'(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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