![]() ![]() The story tells us upfront how it ends-with the suicide of all five Lisbon girls-then goes back to June and retells everything in chronological order. ![]() The action takes place in the early seventies of the twentieth century, and the book features one year in the life of a town. You put the book down and that’s when the melancholy grabs you by the soul. Since it is narrated, however, with verve and humor, you don’t quite comprehend how sad it is until you’ve read the final pages. Set in Wayne County, Michigan, in and around Grosse Point, a suburb of Detroit, “The Virgin Suicides” is steeped in gloom. ![]() Given that the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of “The Virgin Suicides” (Warner Books, 1993, 249 pages) is about to appear in print, now is a good time for another look at a novel that has become a modern classic in American literature. ![]()
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