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Although not without flaws, The Virgin Suicides is wonderfully original." - Peter Guttridge, The Independent "Eugenides' assured mixture of heartfelt nostalgia - suburban life has seldom been recalled so lovingly - and dark humour makes for a mesmerising read.

" The Virgin Suicides takes the dark stuff of Greek tragedy and reworks it into a mesmerizing, eccentric, frequently hilarious American fantasy about the tyranny of unrequited love and the unknowable heart of every family on earth-but especially the family next door." - Entertainment Weekly.

Also published in French as Les vierges suicidéesī+ : engaging if not entirely successful novel of adolescence and the mysteries of the opposite sex.

The Virgin Suicides was made into a film in 1999, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, and Josh Hartnett.

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