The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Seller
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tan cloth boards with white binding. Slight dent in foredge. Otherwise text and boards are in fine condition. DJ is without any noticeable marks, and is clean and bright. Not price clipped. NYT times review of 5/19/73 laid in.
Inscribed to former owner by the author on title page. Mylar protected.
Very collectable copy.
Inscribed to former owner by the author on title page. Mylar protected.
Very collectable copy.
Synopsis
The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers around the suicides of five sisters. The Lisbon girls' suicides fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for the acts. The book's first chapter appeared in Issue No. 117 of The Paris Review (Winter 1990), where it won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bonnie Lane Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09-05-2022-04
- Title
- The Virgin Suicides
- Author
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Format/Binding
- Tight, fine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374284385
- ISBN 13
- 9780374284381
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 249
- Size
- 8" x 5 1/4"
- Keywords
- Books adapted into films
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About the Seller
Bonnie Lane Books
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Roseburg, Oregon
About Bonnie Lane Books
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