30th Anniversay Special Edition
The lyrical,timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters,from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.
The five Lisbon sisters - beautiful,eccentric and,now,gone - had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood.
Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up,they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. The question persists - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives
This mesmerising tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologises middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years.
'A flare from my own secret world,all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form'Emma Cline,author of The Girls
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008667085Number of pages: 256Weight: 270 gDimensions: 204 x 135 x 19 mm
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'One of the finest novels in many years - a Catcher in the Rye for our time.'- The Observer
'Eccentric,amusing,moving...Eugenides's assured mixture of heartfelt nostalgia and dark humour makes for a mesmerising read.'- The Independent
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides is an American author,best known for his trio of novels The Virgin Suicides,Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.
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