Lucky / Alice Sebold.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Scribner, c1999.Description: 254 p. 22 cmISBN:- 684857820
- HV 6561 .Se22 1999
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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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