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As The Virgin Suicides puts its heroines through hell, its readers, weirdly enough, will be delighted.' - David Gates, Newsweek 'Eugenides is one of those rare writers who can manage sympathy and detachment simultaneously-and work small wonders with words while he's at it.Mordant to be sure, and always understated, Eugenides' sense of the absurd is relentless (.) The other outstanding feature of Eugenides' novel is its voice: first person plural.' - Kristin McCloy, The Los Angeles Times But despite the ghoulish nature of his subject, or perhaps because of it, Jeffrey Eugenides never loses his sense of humor.

'In the hands of someone else, the story of five teen-age girls, all from the same family, taking their own lives might be a dreadful tale, dark and depressing.

Although not without flaws, The Virgin Suicides is wonderfully original.' - Peter Guttridge, The Independent

'Eugenides' assured mixture of heartfelt nostalgia - suburban life has seldom been recalled so lovingly - and dark humour makes for a mesmerising read.

' The Virgin Suicides takes the dark stuff of Greek tragedy and reworks it into a mesmerizing, eccentric, frequently hilarious American fantasy about the tyranny of unrequited love and the unknowable heart of every family on earth-but especially the family next door.' - Entertainment Weekly.

Also published in French as Les vierges suicidéesī+ : engaging if not entirely successful novel of adolescence and the mysteries of the opposite sex.

The Virgin Suicides was made into a film in 1999, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, and Josh Hartnett.

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