[EPUB] Lucky by Alice Sebold

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Publisher: Scribner
Genres: Nonfiction Books, Memoir Books, Biography Books
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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.' 

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