Lucky
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.'
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780330418362 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Sebold, Alice, INTRODUCTION BY Miller, Madeline | |
| PUBLISHER : Pan Macmillan | PUBLICATION DATE : December 01, 2002 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Picador |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 211 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies