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The Virgin Suicides Audiobook
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This nationally bestselling novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola. A haunting yet wickedly funny tale, The Virgin Suicides has captivated countless readers with its intoxicating portrait of lost innocence.
The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie, and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys becomes obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don’t know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
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"These girls are delicate and graceful and have their own world that I found myself pulled into. This book was very enjoyable but also untold. I couldn't seem to put it down because when I did, it felt like I was missing everything. I highly recommend it, and i'm watching the movie this weekend."
— Stella (5 out of 5 stars)
The Virgin Suicides Listener Reviews
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" This book was recommended to me by a friend. I found the story so sad and frustrating and wanted to give the family a good shake up! Left me with more questions than answers. "
— Judy, 11/26/2017 -
" Clever and well-written and strangely compelling, but when you know the outcome it becomes a march to the end and I began to hope it came sooner rather than later. Disappointing "
— Mike, 2/16/2014 -
" This is a very good book, but very depressing story. Another one where the book is much much better than the film. "
— Brian, 2/14/2014 -
" A must read for everyone. Beautiful. "
— Mike, 2/11/2014 -
" One of my favorite books now. "
— Alexandra, 2/5/2014 -
" an interesting book, great story teller & i absolutely recommend it. too exciting & i loved the ending. last two pages where my favorite piece. "
— Fatchoom, 1/19/2014 -
" Excellent! His writing is just amazing. Nuff said. "
— Shawn, 1/18/2014 -
" I really like Eugenides writing style. It keeps you engaged, but I kept wanting more story. Not a lot of things actually happen in the book (except the very beginning and end). "
— Kristin, 1/16/2014 -
" I felt a lot of feelings. But then it was over and I stopped feeling anything at all. "
— Alex, 1/15/2014 -
" "I want to ingest every piece of that book. I want to pull every sentence off the page and cry into it and taste it and fling it across the room." So summarized the friend who lent me her well worn copy of this novel, and very quickly I saw why. "
— Brian, 1/14/2014 -
" An enjoyable novel I suppose. I liked the story and characters, just not the writer himself. "
— Christine, 1/11/2014 -
" One of my all-time favorite books. Haunting, poetic, funny and sad at turns. I've read it a million times and never get sick of it. "
— Anna, 12/6/2013 -
" Read if you were ever a 12 yr old girl "
— Elaine, 11/8/2013 -
" It was good till the end "
— Zigzigmig, 11/3/2013 -
" Read the title. Enough said. "
— Adele, 6/11/2013 -
" I liked this book but didn't love it. I think part of the problem is that I saw the movie when it came out, and the book is exactly the same as the movie. I found the book to be a little boring at times, and though I'm definitely in the minority, I actually preferred The Marriage Plot. "
— Whitney, 4/21/2013 -
" This is definitely one of those books that was much better than the movie. "
— Kellie, 3/17/2013 -
" One of my all time favorite books! Back when we had Sassy magazine, this was one of their must reads. Could not agree me. This defines my teenage years. "
— Erin, 1/7/2013 -
" Eugenides uses words beautifully, and nails descriptions. Adolescence and the teenage years described to a T... in a painful way and one that is beautiful at the same time. Pretty amazing for a first novel. "
— Gal, 11/7/2012 -
" Incredible. Haunting, morbid, poetic, psychologically intense. The entire story is viewed through the lens of this unnamed narrator who watches the girls grow up, a narrator whose own silent story seems to parallel the girls'. Stirring, beautiful. Eugenides is an incredible storyteller. "
— Catherine, 10/31/2011 -
" Tragicomic, with the emphasis on the comic, making me feel really guilty... "
— Katrina, 5/21/2011 -
" Beautifully narrated tale of the mass suicide of the five beautiful Lisbon sisters and the boys who worshiped them. "
— Kristina, 5/19/2011 -
" If you haven't read this book, DO SO. NOW. "
— Esra, 5/19/2011 -
" This captures the feelings of high school and how the world looked through the eyes of innocent curiosity and black & white disappointment. Eugenides unfolds the mind of teen angst and reminds us all where we came from. Excellent book :) "
— Meca, 5/17/2011 -
" The ending of this book is somewhat frustrating, giving no real closure to the story, but the prose it's written in is descriptive and beautiful to read. It's almost soothing, despite the rather dark subject matter. "
— Tabi, 5/16/2011 -
" I'm still reading but am so mindful of the 'collecting' theme that runs through this book and also Orhan Pamuk's 'Museum of Innocence'...both about the evocative object that stands for a personal attribute or experience. "
— Marjorie, 5/15/2011 -
" Liked it, but the ending felt off. "
— Linn, 5/13/2011 -
" I'm still not sure what I think. Haunting, romantic, and sad. "
— Strmd87, 5/11/2011 -
" Another favorite of mine. I've read this book several times. I love the atmosphere of the book, the gentle boy voices of the narrators, the mystery surrounding the girls. A pleasure to read. "
— Jamie, 5/2/2011 -
" The book is exactly like the movie. It's a very slow story, but the movie goes by quicker. "
— Jamie, 5/1/2011 -
" This book, while beautifully written and with haunting imagery left me at the end wondering what the hell the point was. "
— Makayla, 4/29/2011
About Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France’s Prix Médicis was also selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The Marriage Plot was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. The Virgin Suicides was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola. He is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton.
About Nick Landrum
Nick Landrum is an award-winning narrator, singer, and voice-over artist. His audiobook work includes The Virgin Suicides, Bob Dylan’s unabridged Chronicles, and he is the voice of the popular Dexter series. Landrum has won two AudioFile Earphones Awards. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.