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Lucky: A Memoir

By Alice Sebold

Publisher: Back Bay Books (September, 2002)
Edition: Paperback

List Price: $11.95
Our Price: $7.17 (Amazon.com)

Amazon.com sales rank: 437

Customer Review #1

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.

Customer Review #2

Rating: 5

Summary: The most harrowing piece of non-fiction have ever read

Comment: This book says it all about the misogynist judiciary, police and society that women have to live in.
I thought about this book for days after reading it.
Nothing I say here can do it justice.
I urge you to read it.

Customer Review #3

Rating: 5

Summary: Disturbing--a must read

Comment: Wow! I was totally blown away by this book. Even better than THE LOVELY BONES, this one will keep you up at night. It is disturbing--what book about rape isn't?--but in Sebold's capable hands the telling unfolds in an expert and gripping way.
If you liked BONES and books such as THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER, you must, must, must read McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD. It's another page-turner with that packs quite a wallop!

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