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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; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their effords 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 in turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victim even as she imparts wisdom profoundly won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
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Lucky, Alice Sebold
- Language
- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Lucky
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alice Sebold
- Publisher
- PICADOR
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 254
- ISBN10
- 0330438832
- ISBN13
- 9780330438834
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Mystery & Thriller, Biographies, Romance, Thriller, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Suspense, Memories, True Crime, Courage, Abuse, Experiences, Autobiographical Novels, Rape, Trauma, Case Studies
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- 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; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their effords 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 in turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victim even as she imparts wisdom profoundly won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."