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Description
In a memoir hailed for its searing candour 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'. "A rueful, razor-sharp memoir...Sebold tells what it's like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it's like slowly, bumpily, triumphantly to heal". (Sarah Kerr, "Vogue").
Product info
- Weight
- 181
- Dimensions
- 192 x 128 x 20 mm
- ASIN
- 033041836X
- Department
- Book
- Studio
- Picador
- EAN
- 9780330418362
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Alice Sebold
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Number of Items
- 2
- Publication Date
- 6 June 2003
- Languages
- English (Unknown)
- English (Original Language)
- English (Published)
