Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

The Virgin Suicides

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

A Novel

Middlesex

The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation

The Marriage Plot

This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

Stories

Fresh Complaint

A collection of love stories and love story excerpts from classic literary works includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera.

Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

En menos de un año y medio, las cinco hermanas Lisbon, adolescentes entre trece y diecisiete años, se suicidaron. los jovencitos del barrio habían estado siempre fascinados por esas inalcanzables jóvenes en flor, atraídos por esa casa de densa femineidad

Las vírgenes suicidas

Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, incurable romantic, is studying Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. A madeleine contemplates the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. The charismatic Leonard Bankhead attracts Madeleine with an intensity she fells powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell is certain of only one thing in life - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. As all three leave college, they must decide the ending of their very own marriage plot [Source : 4e de couv.].

Le vergini suicide

30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR The lyrical, timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot.

The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot With a New Introduction by Emma Cline Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)

Um clássico moderno, uma lírica e intemporal história de sexo e suicídio.Adaptado ao cinema por Sofia Coppola, com Kirsten Dunst num dos principais papéis, esta é a história assombrosa e terna das breves vidas das cinco irmãs Lisbon – belas, excêntricas e obsessivamente vigiadas por todo o bairro –, que se suicidam uma a uma no espaço de um ano.Este suicídio marca para sempre os jovens rapazes da vizinhança, que viveram e sofreram com elas... à distância. Vinte anos mais tarde, tentam reconstituir os acontecimentos, reféns ainda da fascinação e da obsessão provocadas pelas misteriosas irmãs: Therese, a intelectual; Mary, a coquete; Bonnie, a asceta; Lux, a libertina; e a pálida e mística Cecilia.Justapondo o comum e o gótico, o humor negro e a tragédia, Jeffrey Eugenides cria um vívido e comovente retrato das emoções da juventude e da perda da inocência. Aclamado de imediato pela crítica e pelo público, As Virgens Suicidas é uma terna e perversa história de amor e terror, sexo e suicídio, memória e imaginação.

As Virgens Suicidas

Bakir İntiharlar

En menos de un año y medio, cinco hermanas adolescentes hijas de una católica ferviente que no las dejaba salir con chicos, se suicidaron. Veinte años después, varios hombres que fueron sus vecinos intentan desentrañar el enigma de esas muertes relacionadas con los misterios de la feminidad y el deseo. Una espléndida primera novela que ha sido llevada al cine con gran éxito por Sophia Coppola.

Fresh Complaints

Roman

Die Selbstmord-Schwestern

Marilynne Robinson

Lois Lowry

Susan Cheever

Rick Moody

“To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” —Jeffrey Eugenides In celebration of Brown University’s 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories—many published for the first time—about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America’s most interesting universities. Contributors: Donald Antrim, Robert Arellano, M. Charles Bakst, Amy DuBois Barnett, Lisa Birnbach, Kate Bornstein, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Mary Caponegro, Susan Cheever, Brian Christian, Pamela Constable, Nicole Cooley, Dana Cowin, Spencer R. Crew, Edwidge Danticat, Dilip D’Souza, David Ebershoff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Foreman, Amity Gaige, Robin Green, Andrew Sean Greer, Christina Haag, Joan Hilty, A.J. Jacobs, Sean Kelly, David Klinghoffer, Jincy Willett Kornhauser, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, David Levithan, Mara Liasson, Lois Lowry, Ira C. Magaziner, Madeline Miller, Christine Montross, Rick Moody, Jonathan Mooney, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dawn Raffel, Bill Reynolds, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Ruhl, Ariel Sabar, Joanna Scott, Jeff Shesol, David Shields, Krista Tippett, Alfred Uhry, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Meg Wolitzer “At Brown, we felt safely ensconced in a carefree, counterculture cocoon—free to criticize the university president, join a strike by cafeteria workers, break china laughing, or kiss the sky.” —Pamela Constable

50 Writers Remember College Hill

The Brown Reader

Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

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La trama del matrimonio

Num típico subúrbio dos Estados Unidos nos anos 1970, cinco irmãs adolescentes se matam em sequência e sem motivo plausível. A tragédia, ocorrida no seio de uma família que, em oposição aos efeitos já perceptíveis da revolução sexual, vive sob severas restrições morais e religiosas, é narrada pela voz coletiva e fascinada de um grupo de garotos da vizinhança. O coro lírico que então se forma ajuda a dar um tom sui generis a esta fábula da inocência perdida. Adaptado ao cinema por Sofia Coppola, publicado em 34 idiomas e agora em nova tradução, o livro de estreia de Jeffrey Eugenides logo se tornou um cult da literatura norte-americana contemporânea. Não por acaso: essa obra de beleza estranha e arrebatadora, definida pela crítica Michiko Kakutani como “pequena e poderosa ópera no formato inesperado de romance”, revela-se ainda hoje em toda a sua atualidade. “Ardente.” - Newsweek “Inesquecível.” - Harper ́s Bazaar “Pungente... lírico.” - The New York Times “Envolvente...” - The Wall Street Journal

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