![]() ![]() Biography: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. ![]() '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 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. 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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