The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesIntroducing 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. That girl didnt want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme. The five Lisbon sisters beautiful, eccentric, and, now, gone had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighborhood. Although the

from sabotaging habits

Is the financial plan of mediocrity -- a dream-stealing

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa

Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter

The discipline gave him structure

gallant amateurs and military cartographers are described with perceptive clarity

more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow

seemingly insignificant visual cues

authentic and practical rendering of the Yoga Sutra

one must possess both spiritual and material wisdom

Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café

Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate