Lucky
  • Published:
    1999
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    272
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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."
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Sep-2002
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316096199
    • ISBN13: 9780316096195
    •  
    • Sep-2002
    • Little, Brown
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0594550572
    • ISBN13: 9780594550570
    •  
    • Sep-2009
    • Scribner
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 143913085X
    • ISBN13: 9781439130858



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