The Virgin Suicides
A Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary book. In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle,...
The haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides, now a major film, is Jeffrey Eugenides' classic debut novel.The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 243 pages
- ISBN: 9780007524303 / 7524307
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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides I dont know what youre feeling. I wont even pretend. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Prose style: 4Plot: 3Depth of characters: 5Overall sense of aesthetic: 4Originality: 5Entertaining: 5Emotional Reaction: 5 Intellectual Stimulation: 4 Social Relevance: 4Writerly Inspiration: 2 Average = 4.1 Click hereI picked this up on something of a whim from the library, audiobook format. Because what the heck? I wanted to mix it... Loved Middlesex, this one was just okay.. The writing was good, but I just felt so bad for the girls and am just left with a big WHY??? This book is like a preface, where the real book never feels like it begins. Endless foreshadowing mixed in with various teenage boy obsessions about what a home with five daughters must entail...boxes and boxes of tampons, etc. I couldn't wait for these girls to kill themselves just so the book would be over.
