The virgin suicides /

Eugenides, Jeffrey.

The virgin suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides. - First Picador edition. - 243 pages ; 21 cm

The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.

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Teenagers--Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
Suburban life--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.


Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.

PS3555.U4 / V57 2009

813/.54