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Lucky: A Memoir

By Alice Sebold

Book information

Publisher
Back Bay Books
Year
2002
ISBN
0316096199, 9780316096195
Open Library ID
OL17229258M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
185 kB (189333 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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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