{"product_id":"9780008485160","title":"The Virgin Suicides","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Eugenides, Jeffrey \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 13 May 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Collins Modern Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 199 x 22 | 228g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone - had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43885421756656,"sku":"9780008485160","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780008485160.jpg?v=1713453948","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9780008485160","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}