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. Sad, beautiful, banal and arrhythmic in the way that real life (and death) is, the auspicious and off-kilter feature debut from writer-director Sofia Coppola. Sensitive, but often amusingly macabre, The Virgin Suicides tells us that the family religion (here, Catholism, but I think the producers see any religious. One of its most pleasing attributes is that despite the postmodern pyrotechnics, the book is deeply felt, lushly written, even heartrending. The question persists - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives? The five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone - had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood.Īlthough the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up, they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. She wanted out of that decorating scheme. Introducing 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.
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