The Virgin Suicides - Bloomsbury Classic Series

Format:	Hardback 288 pages

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The story of five sisters who all commit suicide in the same year. Trying to fathom events two decades later, one of the boys who used to spy on them recreates the fateful year, from the youngest's first plunge into her own bloodbath, to the final field day of the national press.

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Published
19/09/1996

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN
9780747529125

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Suburban America is seen through strangely skewed eyes in this tale of five sisters who commit suicide one after the other but remain enigmatic figures, existing mostly in the fantasies and anecodotes of the town's adolescent boys. Told in a matter-of-fact downbeat style with flashes of black humour and moments of real poignancy. Unusual and compelling. (Kirkus UK)