Lucky by Alice Sebold [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 2002 • Back Bay Books

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [2002] BACK BAY / LITTLE BROWN

5th trade paperback printing w/ frosted matte cover and embossed cover fonts.

Book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear to cover.

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."