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Alice Sebold
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Lucky : A Memoir |
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Paperback |
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272 |
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2002-09-16 |
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B000EGF0NW |
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Back Bay Books |
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0.5 pounds |
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5.4 x 8.0 x 0.8 inches |
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Product Description
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
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Lynn (USA: MA) (2011/11/28):
This is such a great book, a little disturbing at parts...but I just couldn't put it down. Alice Sebold is a strong lady!!
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http://bookmooch.com/B000EGF0NW |
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