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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446670258
ISBN: 0446670251
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 01, 1994
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Sales Rank: 3780
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and The Secret History comes a compelling, highly-acclaimed debut novel of youth and innocence. On the elm-lined streets of a middle-class American city, the lives of a group of teenaged boys are forever changed by their obsession with five mysteriously doomed sisters.
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raised in the pentecostal church, i can relate with a lot of the girls' experience. As a matter of fact, I went as far as thinking about suicide, because I felt as if I couldn't be part of anything fun in life. Going to school was difficult since I was not allowed to do many of the activities normal teenagers did. It went as far as turning in a note from my pastor to the PE teacher stating that I was not allowed to participate in PE because the bible does not allow females to wear pants! So, ... Read More
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Like many, I purchased this novel after having read the author's magnificent book, Middlesex. I had also seen the movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, which I recall enjoying quite a bit. Whether in comparison with Middlesex, or the film version, I found the novel lacking.
Perhaps being familiar with the story resulted in a lack of suspense, though there can't really be much suspense when the author reveals the ultimate end game early in the novel. The writing was quite good, though I ... Read More
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When the doctor treats Cecilia Lisbon's slit wrists, he asks why in the world she would want to kill herself?
"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl," Cecilia replies.
Cecilia should have read >Huckleberry Finn< by Mark Twain. Huck had to dress up like a thirteen-year-old girl, and would understand her plight. Huck had also seen a drawing by fifteen-year-old Emmeline Grangerford, who pictured herself dressed in a white gown, poised to leap to her death from a bridge. ... Read More
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The Virgin Suicides
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Eugenides, J. (1994). The virgin suicides. New York: Warner Books.
Thanks to Oprah, I read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides this past summer. Amazed by Eugenides, I looked to see when the movie would be coming. Well, that has not happened yet for Middlesex but there was Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, a movie adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel by the same name. Quickly, I put my name on the waiting list for the movie. ... Read More
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"... they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived -- bound, in other words, for life."
The Virgin Suicides is not just a story of the loneliness of being female. It is also a story of the loneliness of life and understanding what it is to be female; the pressures, or rather, the facade of traditional values placed upon women, lead to the Lisbon sisters demise.
What makes The Virgin Suicides so compelling is the fact that it is told from the ... Read More
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