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"WEAVES A SINUOUS SPELL... SHOT THROUGH WITH SNEAKY BLACK HUMOR... INTOXICATING".-- ESQUIRE

Eugenides's remarkable first novel opens on a startling note: ``On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide . . . the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.'' What follows is not, however, a horror novel, but a finely crafted work of literary if slightly macabre imagination. In an unnamed town in the slightly distant past, detailed in such precise and limpid prose that readers will surely feel that they grew up there, Cecilia--the youngest and most obviously wacky of the luscious Lisbon girls--finally succeeds in taking her own life. As the confused neighbors watch rather helplessly, the remaining sisters become isolated and unhinged, ending it all in a spectacular multiple suicide anticipated from the first page. Eugenides's engrossing writing style keeps one reading despite a creepy feeling that one shouldn't be enjoying it so much. A black, glittering novel that won't be to everyone's taste but must be tried by readers looking for something different. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/92.-- Barbara Hoffert, ``Library Journal''

"WEAVES A SINUOUS SPELL... SHOT THROUGH WITH SNEAKY BLACK HUMOR... INTOXICATING".

-- ESQUIRE

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