Lucky
A Memoir- By Alice Sebold
Full 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. ... more
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Critical Praise
"Sharp-eyed and unsentimental....Despite its disturbing subject, Lucky is exhilarating to read."
-Elle
"Gripping...eloquent...a powerful memoir."
-Joan Ullman, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Lucky is just about everything you'd expect it not to be."
-Sally Eckhoff, Salon
"A literary memoir that shines with personality. There is such openness in Sebold's brash, vibrant style that the book feels like the long version of a friend's breathless account of an ordeal."
-Carmen Schneidel, Time Out New York
"A rueful, razor-sharp memoir... funnier than you'd think was possible.... 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
- Category:
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TRUE CRIME
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 9/16/2002
- Price:
- $12.99/$14.50
- ISBN:
- 9780316096195
- Pages:
- 272
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
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