Lucky
by Alice Sebold
Paperback
Rs 390
Currently not available.
Request this book.| Genre: | Biography & Memoirs |
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| Language: | English |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780330418362 |
| ISBN10: | 033041836X |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Dimensions: | 5.12 x 7.76 x 0.59 inches |
| Weight: | 209.79 g |
| Published: | May 31, 2003 |
| Edition: | 3 |
About the Book
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").