The Virgin Suicides

Resumen del libro

The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Middlesex" and "The Marriage Plot"

""First published in 1993, "The Virgin Suicides" announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. 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 humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, "The Virgin Suicides" is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
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Biografía del autor

Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, 1960) estudió en las universidades de Brown y Stanford. Es autor de tres aclamadas novelas, todas ellas publicadas por Anagrama: Las vírgenes suicidas, llevada al cine por Sofia Coppola: Extraordinaria novela, las hermanas Lisbon son a la literatura de los noventa lo que el Holden Caulfield de El guardián entre el centeno fue a la de los cincuenta (Sergi Sánchez, El Mundo); Middlesex, que obtuvo el Pulitzer 2003 y fue considerada una de las mejores novelas de las últimas décadas: Sobresaliente, poderosísima (Antonio Fontana, ABC); Magnífica saga familiar, una novela deslumbrante (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); Colosal (David Guzmán, La Razón); y La trama nupcial: Fino y empático... Eugenides vuelve para reclamar su lugar entre los maestros artesanos de la (gran) novela (americana) (Rubén Pujol, Rockdelux); Una luminosa meditación acerca de la distancia que media entre la literatura y la vida (Eduardo Lago, El País).