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| Title | : | Lucky |
| Author | : | Alice Sebold |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 243 pages |
| Published | : | September 16th 2002 by Hachette Book Group (first published August 4th 1999) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
Alice Sebold
Paperback | Pages: 243 pages Rating: 3.78 | 89095 Users | 4211 Reviews
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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 ("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."Present Books Supposing Lucky
| Original Title: | Lucky |
| ISBN: | 033041836X (ISBN13: 9780330418362) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/alicesebold/lucky |
| Characters: | Alice Sebold |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 89095 Users | 4211 ReviewsColumn Of Books Lucky
It wouldnt do justice to Lucky to call it a rape memoir. Though the events of the book cycle around Sebolds rape she experienced as a college freshman, in a broader context her story deals with social attitudes and crime/justice. It takes a gifted writer to make brutal events into captivating memoirs; in stories that deal with a single trauma, first-person accounts tend to be so caught up feelings of aggression or grief that the emotions take precedence over the writing itself. Since SeboldAn absorbing memoir about a college girl who was raped. The book covers the rape, the trial, and the very long recovery. Rape is an ugly and isolating act and the author takes you as close to it as is possible for someone never having experienced the trauma. It will take me awhile to get this story out of my head.
The year is 1981. Alice Sebold experienced something which is nothing short of horrifying and traumatising. But she was above all of it, as fought through it at every step, never faltering and never hesitating. Her story brings about a number of messages, but the ones which struck hard are the ones that need to be brought out to the world. Talking about rape isn't easy. But, it has to be done. If not for us, then for others who find it hard to cope up with it. Sebold's story proved it. And as
Brilliant. I was hooked from the first paragraph of the foreword but I had a very difficult time getting though the first chapter, where Sebold's rape was described in excrutiating detail. Remembering this is a memoir, it made me physically ill. I really admire the guts this woman has...she went right back to Syracuse and went on with her life, determined to get justice for what happened and reclaim her identity to be more than "that girl who was raped". I was appalled at the treatment she
When I first started reading Lucky I thought that something was wrong with me. I mean, I get that there is this horrific rape within the first chapter and that NO ONE should have to go through what she went through, but I wasnt feeling it. It was more like oh, wow, that sucks. Then, I started feeling worse because I thought of my soul has become a blackened prune pit residing near my left kidney. I was more into the fact that Tess Gallagher and Tobias Wolff were Alices professors than that poor
I have to admit - I couldn't finish this book. Rarely do I not finish a book, but I just couldn't with this one. I normally love Alice Sebold's matter-of-fact writing style, but here, it failed. She described her rape and the events in her life that followed, but she kept saying that no one else can understand what it's like to be a victim of that kind of violence. I know that's true - I can never understand - but I'm reading this book to try to understand what it's like, and it's the job of the
In Lucky, Alice Sebold recounts the night she was raped and how that event and its consequences reverberated throughout her life. The first chapter of this book made me feel ill, so major warning to readers that there is intense detail about rape and assault right from the very start. However, I thought Sebold's frankness was very important to her story. She tells it exactly like it is, and it was interesting to see how she handled herself in and out of the courtroomespecially for someone so
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