'The Virgin Suicides' was adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. 9780007524303 The Virgin Suicides 29.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction 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.

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. I found it to be a critique of alienation due to gender roles, sexism, and capitalism - among other things. I thought The Virgin Suicides was a work of pure genius. Like any adaptation, there were changes when the novel was transformed into film, but the more. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour and. Amanda For me, the movie is an incredible adaptation of this book. AJ Cook, Kirsten Dunst, Leslie Hayman and Chelse Swain. 'The Virgin Suicides' offers fascinating food for thought.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.Īs 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. The Virgin Suicides at 30: why I’m obsessed with this dark, dreamy novel Books The Guardian. Yet there are no answers to the sadness of the strangers who live across the street, even as we pass through their lives and through their houses. The situation is indeed unexplainable, yet it is in our nature to expect a resolution, to expect concrete evidence as to WHY and demand an answer. They can breathe-and live freely-only in their fantasies (and perhaps in death), but do their realities represent a prison? It's the talent of writer-director Sofia Coppola not to push everything over-the-top she's careful, she leaves the viewer contemplating the characters' motivations and actions. Kirsten Dunst is fantastic as the foxiest of five golden-toned sisters in the mid-'70s who feel trapped by their parents (a peculiar, but not overly monstrous couple), trapped by their feelings, trapped by time. It's also very funny, tending to mix the black comedy of something like 'Heathers' with the stifling suburban scenario of 'American Beauty' (but it's better than both).

A strange, surreal flight-of-fancy of death and love, remembrance and how romanticized our memories become.

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