Lucky: A Memoir

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor 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." more

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; An inauthentic account that summarizes rather than feels the rape; As one who enjoyed "The Lovely Bones" (until the end, which struck me as more artifice than art), I was severely disappointed by Ms. Sebold's memoir. Like "The Lovely Bones," the beginning of "Lucky" starts strong, the events she relates...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; Lucky - Memoir; After I had gone through some intense emotions over my rape experience, a friend suggested I read this book. The first chapter was very difficult to get through. I was able to picture it all very vividly, and it brought back some...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-01-2009; Saddened and ambivalent; I picked up this book on the recommendation of a friend but normally I wouldn't choose to tackle this subject matter. That said, I felt a lack of sympathy for the writer. I feel awful saying this as she went through something traumatic....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-05-2009; A powerful testament to the resiliency of the human spirit; I've known of Alice Sebold for a few years now, but I never actually read a book of hers until now, when I read "Lucky," her memoir on her brutal rape and the subsequent prosecution of her attacker.The rape itself lasts for eleven pages,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; Lucky - Memoir; After I had gone through some intense emotions over my rape experience, a friend suggested I read this book. The first chapter was very difficult to get through. I was able to picture it all very vividly, and it brought back some...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-09-2007; great tragedy but lousy storytelling; When Imre Kertesz writes about Auschwitz, he does so in a way of mid-european intellectual, who knows his history, his philosophical predecessors, his native background and all that may be connected to it in some way. Kertesz survived...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; An inauthentic account that summarizes rather than feels the rape; As one who enjoyed "The Lovely Bones" (until the end, which struck me as more artifice than art), I was severely disappointed by Ms. Sebold's memoir. Like "The Lovely Bones," the beginning of "Lucky" starts strong, the events she relates...; read full review | report as inappropriate