Virgin Suicides (eBook)

Jeffrey Eugenides (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
260 Seiten
HarperCollins Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-00-752431-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters ?? beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys ?? commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. The Virgin Suicides was dapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola.

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Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?This hypnotic and unforgettable novel treats adolescent love and death with haunting sensitivity and dark humour, and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-752431-5 / 0007524315
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-752431-0 / 9780007524310