TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sebold, Alice.
TI  - Lucky
SN  - 684857820
AV  - HV 6561 .Se22 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Rape victims
KW  - United States
KW  - Trials (Rape)
N2  -  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."www.shelfari.com";  as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; 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")
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