The Virgin Suicides Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Publisher: Bloomsbury Format: Paperback RRP: $19.95 (AUD) My rating The story In a sleepy suburb in 1970s Detroit, a group of teenage boys watch with an obsessive awe the five Lisbon daughters who live across the road. Beautiful, eccentric, stifled, hidden; the girls cause a neighbourhood uproar when 13-year-old Cecelia, [...]
Last week I confessed I have never read any of Jeffrey Eugenides’ books, but that I was planning to fix this soon. Having seen him speak on Thursday (May 17) at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival I now absolutely cannot wait to read some of his work. If he writes half as well as he speaks (his [...]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides has criticised the Pulitzer Prize board’s decision not to award a fiction prize this year, during an interview at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival, warning the move could detriment the industry. “There’s not too many people that think it was a good idea [not to award the prize],” the American author Eugenides told interviewer [...]
This is just a quick post. I’m off to see Jeffrey Eugenides speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in a couple of hours and was doing a bit of background surfing when I came across this great Guardian interview with journalist Sarfraz Manzoor about Eugenides’ latest novel The Marriage Plot. Which I shudder to confess I haven’t [...]