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The Virgin Suicides Macabre Imagination “On the morning the last Lisbon daugh- ter took her turn at suicide... the two para- medics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife draw- er was, and the gas Jeffrey Kent Eugen- oven, and the beam ides is an American in the basement from Pulitzer Prize- which it was possible winning novelist to tie a rope.” What and short story follows is not, howev- writer. Eugenides er, a horror novel, but is most known for a finely crafted work his first two novels, of literary if slightly The Virgin Suicides macabre imagination. (1993) and Middle- In an unnamed town sex (2002). His in the slightly distant novel The Marriage past, detailed in such Plot was published precise and limpid in October, 2011. prose that readers He lives in Princ- will surely feel that eton, New Jersey, they grew up there, with his wife, Karen Cecilia--the youngest and most obviously Yamauchi, and their The Virgin Suicides daughter, Georgia. wacky of the luscious In the fall of 2007, Lisbon girls--finally Eugenides joined succeeds in taking the faculty of Princ- her own life. As the eton University’s confused neighbors Program in Creative watch rather help- Writing. lessly, the remaining sisters become isolated and unhinged. 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By the uppose that you and I were sitting in a time you realize the extent of [ the geisha’s] profes- S sional skill, you are seduced as completely as any of her quiet room overlooking a garden, chat- clients, hungry for her story.” of a ting and sipping at our cups of green tea - Janice Nimura, Washington Post while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I “Memoirs of a Geisha evokes all the delicate steel of Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Ten- said to you, “That afternoon when I met Kyoto’s geisha culture with such uncanny fidelity nessee, and was educated at Harvard College, so-and-so...was the very best afternoon that, after you’ve finished, you feel as if you’ve where he received a degree in art history, spe- Geisha of my life, and also the very worst after- entered not just another world, but an extraordinary cializing in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an and foreign heart.” noon.” I expect you might put down your M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia Uni- - Pico Iyer teacup and say, “Well, now, which was it? versity, where he also learned Mandarin Chi- nese. Following a summer at Beijing University, Was it the best or the worst? Because it “Part historical novel, part fairy tale, part Dickensian he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the can’t possibly have been both!” Ordinar- romance, Memoirs of a Geisha [ is ] not only a richly United States, earned an M.A. in English from ily I’d have to laugh at myself and agree sympathetic portrait of a woman, but a finely observed Boston University. He resides in Brookline, picture of an anomalous and largely vanished world... with you. But the truth is that the after- Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. An impressive and unusual debut.” noon when I met Mr. Tanaka Ichiro really - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times was the best and the worst of my life. He seemed so fascinating to me, even the “A novel that is full of cliffhangers fish smell on his hands was a kind of per- great and small, a novel that refuses fume. If I had never known him, I’m sure to stay shut.” - Jeff Giles, Newsweek I would not have become a geisha. Arthur Golden Book jacket designed by Daniel Por Arthur Golden “Do you ever really forget your first heartbreak?” Seventeen year old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City With well over 50 million copies to Wrightsville Beach, North of his books printed, Nicholas Carolina. Three years later, she Sparks is one of the world’s most remains angry and alienated from beloved storytellers. His novels her parents, especially her father... include nine #1 New York Times until her mother decides it would bestsellers, and all of his books, be in everyone’s best interest if she including Three Weeks with My spent the summer in Wilmington Brother, the memoir he wrote “Romance, betrayal, and youthful with him. Ronnie’s father, a former with his brother, Micah, have been discovery… Fans of The concert pianist and teacher, is New York Times and international Notebook, Message in a living a quiet life in the beach bestsellers, and were translated Bottle, etc., will gobble it up.” town, immersed in creating a into more than forty languages. -Entertainment Weekly work of art that will become the Six of Nicholas Spark’s novels -- centerpiece of a local church. The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, Message in a Bottle, The tale unfolds in an A Walk to Remember, and The unforgettable story of love on Notebook -- were also adapted many levels -- first love, love into major motion pictures.
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