His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, has been translated into 34 languages. In 1999 the novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Sofia Coppola. Set in Grosse Point, Michigan, the novel follows the lives and deaths by suicide of five sisters over the course of an increasingly isolated year, as told from the point of view of the neighborhood boys who obsessively watch them.
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Famous quotes containing the word virgin:
“But see, the Virgin blest
Hath laid her Babe to rest:
Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
Hath fixed her polished car,
Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
And all about the courtly stable,
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)