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Title: Lucky : A Memoir by Alice Sebold ISBN: 0-316-09619-9 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (147 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY
Comment: Like her wonderful novel The Lovely Bones - which I've also reviewed and which you must read - Lucky is a harrowing, heart-wrenching book about the worst possible thing that can happen to a woman. Alice Sebold tells the raw story of her rape ordeal and her subsequent struggle for recovery with an honesty and warmth which is compelling. Lucky reads almost like a novel itself at times, with gripping moments of suspense, particularly during the court trial scenes.
Alice Sebold was the innocent victim of an unforgivable crime - but she doesn't ask for our sympathy or pity in these beautifully written pages. She earns our respect and admiration for the courageous way she tells how the traumatic events changed and shaped her life; how the naive college student would eventually become a hardened, determined aggressor herself in her brave fight for justice against her attacker. Sadly, this natural reaction to her personal violation came with a price - destructive behavioural damage that brought a later downward spiral into drugs. What the author didn't know at the time is that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; an anxiety syndrome that emerges following a psychologically distressing traumatic event such as rape, which she battles to overcome.
Can someone really, truly, get over something so savage and brutal as rape is the numbing thought you're left with long after you put the book aside? The past can never be forgotten, but Alice Sebold has managed to crawl from the wreckage and move on with her life to a happier future that has brought her international fame and acclaim. That says something about the human spirit - and everything about this remarkable woman.
Rating: 5
Summary: Overcoming Obstacles
Comment: This book was beautifully written. The author uses the audiences attention by starting with the story first and then recapturing the events that took place afterword. She keeps the reader on their toes by her amazing description of events.
Alice Sebold shows how she overcame her rape and was able to survive it. She told what happened to her and how it effected the lives around her. She overcame what everyone else tried to forget. She got revenge and lost some friends for it and gained some new ones. She was handed lemons and made lemonade.
Rating: 3
Summary: Lucky
Comment: I enjoyed reading Lucky, I found it very interesting to see what Alice had to go through after the rape and how brave it had made her.
I thought the first couple chapters were really interesting,and I wanted to keep reading. As the novel continued it seemed like everything was drawn out, and I could predict what was going to happen next.
Overall I enjoyed the novel, but I wouldn't want to read it again.
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Title: The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold ISBN: 0316666343 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs ISBN: 031242227X Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Secret Garden by ALICE SEBOLD, FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT ISBN: 0812969987 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus ISBN: 0312291639 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Dive From Clausen's Pier : A Novel by Ann Packer ISBN: 0375727132 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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