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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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 are gripping and well told, and we are drawn into the...

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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 memories of my experience that I thought that I had forgotten....

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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. But in her detailed description of everything, I for the...

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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, and the remaining two hundred pages detail the difficulties...

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Posted: Jul-13-2009

What is wrong with this society?

This book was a real eye opener for me. Thankfully, myself and anyone I know have ever been raped. It is truly amazing to me what a rape victim must go though with police, family, freinds, lawyers, etc always questioning and accusing. Now I understand why many victims do not even bother to come...

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Posted: Jun-12-2009

Lucky: A Memoir

This book is amazing. The writing style is very unique and fresh. I found myself unable to put this book down. I do not recommend this book for anyone who has been through a recent trauma and has not yet taken the steps to get better. I wish I had access to this book sooner but this will help...

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Posted: Jun-12-2009

Lucky

Alice Seabold's memoir "Lucky" ex-plores the process of going through and recovering from rape. In the book there is a large demonstration of drama. Given that the book begins with the actually rape, which was very dramatic, vulgar, and detailed. Then the rest of the book explains the dramatic...

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Posted: Jun-08-2009

Lucky Book Review

Benjamin Franklin once said "All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." This quote surprisingly sets the tone for Alice...

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Posted: Jun-05-2008

Brave, compelling read

From the opening pages, Sebold tells the reader a truly horrifying story of her rape in accurate and quite graphic detail. And whilst horrified at what she has endured, you want to read more - to see how someone survives an attack like that, and what life is like for a rape victim in the...

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Posted: May-11-2008

A Must Read

Lucky is a thought provoking book that helps readers understand rape from the victim's perspective. Written in an honest manner, it explores the rational and sometimes irrational reactions of everyone involved - whether victim, friend, or family member.Seabold opens the book with a vivid...

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