Publisher: | Scribner |
Genres: | Nonfiction Books, Memoir Books, Biography Books |
Authors: | Alice Sebold |
Pages: | 254 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0330418362 |
ISBN13: | 9780330418362 |
Tags: | Nonfiction eBooks, Memoir eBooks, Biography eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
In Lucky, 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.'