![]() This gamble paid off for Coppola, however, and Muse Productions liked her screenplay so much they forewent the previous script and optioned Coppola’s. ![]() Horrified to learn a screenplay had been optioned that included the addition of sex and violence to the plot and eager to maintain the delicate innocence of the novel and the spare elegance of Eugenides’s prose, against the advice of her father she wrote her own adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, knowing that another director had optioned the rights to the novel. Introduced to The Virgin Suicides by a music industry friend, Sofia Coppola fell in love with the novel and found herself drawn to the characters of the Lisbon sisters. ![]() In Michiko Kakutani’s New York Times review of the novel, she calls it transporting, “by turns lyrical and portentous, ferocious and elegiac.” The book is narrated from a first person plural point of view, and the events all unfold as filtered through the perspective of a collectively anonymous group of neighborhood boys who are obsessed with the mystery that the Lisbon girls represent. The novel was lauded by critics as a threnody of the dissolution and corruption of the American Dream. Jeffery Eugenides’ 1993 debut novel, The Virgin Suicides-a sort of inverted bildungsroman-tells the story of the five Lisbon daughters, Cecilia, Lux, Mary, Bonnie, and Therese, and their titular suicides over the course of a 1970s summer in Michigan. ![]()
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