Summary
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Suicide of Innocence
The cult debut of Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides is an impressive, witty and tender story about the five enchanting Lisbon sisters, who take their own lives one after the other in the space of just one year. Combining the everyday with the uncanny and the humorous with the tragic - in a story about love and fear, sex and suicide, memories and imagination - Eugenides paints a vivid and convincing portrait of youth and lost innocence. Leading us through the streets of an American suburb in the seventies, he introduces us to people whose lives were forever changed by the obsession and fate of five sisters: bright Teresa, whimsical Mary, spiritual Bonnie, indomitable Lux and pale and pious Cecilia. Even after twenty years, their enigmatic characters live on intact in the memories of the young men who adored them; they now remember their teenage days, the old neighborhood and the sleepy street from which they watched the girls' families fall apart and their fragile lives disappear.
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