E-Reading: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Name of Book: The Virgin Suicides Author: Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 9780349105437 Publisher: Harper Collins Ltd Type of book: 1970s, suicides, depression, theories, puzzles, mystery, goddesses, wealth, Michigan, decay, nature, oppression Year it was published: 1993 Summary: This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.” Characters: I'm not really sure how to describe the characters of the series. We think we might know them, but at the same time we don't. They seem to be three dimensional, but at the same time what do we really know about them? The boys reveal very little of themselves throughout the novel, and the characters of other people make brief appearances but then as soon as their stories relating...