Lucky by Alice Sebold
In Lucky, a memoir hailed for its searing candour 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.’
A rueful, razor-sharp memoir. . Sebold tells what it’s like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it’s like – slowly, bumpily, triumphantly – to heal. -- Sarah Kerr * Vogue *
Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novels The Lovely Bones, The Almost Moon, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California.
SKU | Non disponible |
ISBN 13 | 9780330418362 |
ISBN 10 | 033041836X |
Title | Lucky |
Author | Alice Sebold |
Condition | Non disponible |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Year published | 2003-06-06 |
Number of pages | 256 |
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