Lucky

In 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").

ISBN 033041836X   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780330418362 (What's this?)   Pages 272 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 174 Imprint Picador   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 01 Dec 2002   Width (mm) 130 Library of Congress HV6558   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 362.883092   Academic level General

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