The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EUGENIDES (Presentation Copy)
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1993. (ISBN: 9780374284381)
First edition. Author’s first novel, and basis for the debut film by director Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author to award-winning writer Chris Offutt.
A coming-of-age story, The Virgin Suicides is set in a quiet suburb of Detroit, where the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighbourhood 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.
8vo. 249 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else fine in a fine dust-jacket.