"Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with five doomed sisters: brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia, whose spectacular demise inaugurates "the year of the suicides." This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from the critics-a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination."--Amazon.ca
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ISBN:0446670251 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780446670258 (pbk.)
ISBN:0374284385
Physical Description:249 p. ; 20-21 cm. print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Farrar Straus Giroux ; Warner Books, 1993-
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