Lucky: A Memoir
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Alice Sebold
- Publisher: Back Bay Books
- Release Date: September 2002
- ISBN-10: 0316096199
- ISBN-13: 9780316096195
- List Price: $12.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIn 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." |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
A very mature subject
Rating: 
Alice Sebold has gained much popularity with The Lovely Bones and is an excellent writer. This book is no exception. I do have concern that readers will be unprepared for the graphic nature of this book. If not prepared and given to a young reader, this will end with either lots of unanswered questions or feelings that need to be addressed very carefully. Because it is a true story, it does not come with a happy ending and a bow. It is life. Read with that in mind and if shared with young adult or teen women, discuss. Don't wait for questions, use it as launching pad for a very difficult conversation. Don't assume by the silence that someone has processed the magnitude of the subject matter. Talk. Talk. Talk again. This book will be with you for a long time.
Waste of time
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Since I really liked "Lovely Bones", I was so excited to read another work by Alice, especially since it got such great reviews. How disappointing. There was little if any cohesiveness. The trial was the best part of the book, and after that--nothing.
powerful and personal
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This book was brave and from a personal perspective it spoke to me. She was honest and not a bit of this memoir is inaccurate. It spoke to me personally, and I hope to everyone else who has been a victim of sexual assault or knows someone who has been. This type of crime does indeed shatter a person's life, and sometimes recovery takes a life time. She described her journey so well, and I am glad she was brave enough to write about it, and share her experience. Many victims of crime, especially rape and sexual assault, feel alone and unable to face what happened to them. let alone go to trial and write a book. Mrs. Sebold sets a great example for other women, and demonstrates there hope and recovery after something as traumatic as rape. I especially appreciated the information about PTSD, since I have dealt with that disorder in my own life.
Breaks your heart and opens your eyes.
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I was told to read this book in one of my college courses, and I never forgot how much it touched me. Unlike all the other books which had been assigned over the years, this is the one that remained on my book shelf long after I graduated. It is an inspiring book which touches your heart and helps you to understand how a person feels on their road from victim to survivor. I truly recommend reading this book...Never again will I call a person "lucky" after being attacked (read the book to understand this).
An amazing book
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This book definitely needs a mature audience to handle. It describes in a lot of detail the rape of Alice Sebold and all of the court proceedings that followed. As having to deal with this in my own life, she provides gems of knowledge that really can only be learned from experiencing this type of event and it shows true genuine understanding of this problem. She really provides a lot of experiences that are personal but important because many rape victims will have to go through it (having people disbelieve her, feeling detached, changing in the eyes of others, the idea of saving herself or going unsaved). The book also proves that some rape cases can be solved in a court room but subtly reminds the reader that it usually isn't that way (with the other parts of her story) which is important to remember. I also feel that Sebold goes into details of pain that comes from rape that has nothing to do with the action, such as her relationships with others and how others sometimes just can't stand the idea of being around someone who has experienced such a terrible thing. Sebold discusses what no one really wants to; that sometimes as a society, people don't want to be near those who have suffered terrible events for some unknown reason. The only thing that I feel this book is lacking is explaining more about how she eventually healed. She mentions she did and it takes a long time for her, but the details aren't as descriptive as the beginning. I feel she discusses more the trauma than the healing (which is ironic given what she does write about in reference to the healing) however I do feel that is something maybe too personal to share so I can understand the lack of details. All in all, I feel it is a great book to help out as therapy, to help understand what it might be like, and just in all to read about what people want to forget about how life can be.
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