Author

Publication

2002 - Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002110599
  • LibraryThing245
  • Goodreads228494

Classifications

  • LCCHV6561 .S44 1999

Description

In this memoir, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when at age 18 she was raped and beaten in a park near her college campus

Description

The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones—a powerful account of her sexual assault at the age of eighteen and the harrowing trial that followed. In a memoir hailed for its searing candor, as well as its wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What ultimately propels this chronicle of sexual assault and its aftermath is Sebold’s indomitable spirit, as she fights to secure her rapist’s arrest and conviction and comes to terms with a relationship to the world that has forever changed. With over a million copies in print, Lucky has touched the lives of a generation of readers. Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims and imparts a wisdom profoundly hard-won: “You save yourself or you remain unsaved,” and her story remains as urgent as it was when it was first published more than twenty years ago.

Subjects

Topics

RapeBiographyCase studiesRape victimsSebold, AliceTrials (Rape)Procès (Viol)

People

Alice Sebold

Genres

  • Case studies

Other Editions

  • LuckyBack Bay Books2002-01-01
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