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  • Jeffrey Eugenides
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    / Writing career: The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex

    The Virgin Suicides was published in 1993. The dreamlike novel, which is set in 1970s suburban Detroit, centres on five teenaged sisters who all die by suicide. In what was then an innovative choice, Eugenides wrote the novel entirely in the first-person plural; the collective…

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    The Virgin Suicides was published in 1993. The dreamlike novel, which is set in 1970s suburban Detroit, centres on five teenaged sisters who all die by suicide. In what was then an innovative choice, Eugenides wrote the novel entirely in the first-person plural; the collective…

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