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http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books_9780316067362_ReadingGuide(1).htm Praise:
"Mesmerizing . . . . The Lovely Bones takes the stuff of neighborhood tragedy and turns it into literature."
--- New York Times Book Review
"Heaven is a place where artful little books are as big as this."
--- Janet Maslin, CBS Sunday Morning
"A novel that is painfully fine and accomplished, one which readers will have their own difficulties relinquishing, long after the last page is turned."
--- Los Angeles Times
"A stunning achievement."
--- The New Yorker
"A triumphant novel. . . . The breakout fiction debut of the year. . . . It's a knockout."
--- Time
"A keenly observed portrait of familial love and how it endures and changes over time . . . . A deeply affecting meditation on the ways in which terrible pain and loss can be redeemed--slowly, grudgingly, and in fragments--through love and acceptance."
--- New York Times
"Book clubs, take notice: practically every paragraph is a talking point."
--- Newsweek, 2007.
"Those who stick with it will be rewarded with staggering insight into human emotions and actions, even those that seem most unexplainable....This author sees straight through to the soul, and she doesn't flinch."
--- Joy Tipping, Dallas Morning News, 2007.
"Alice Sebold makes us listen to women we don't want to listen to: a rape victim, a murdered teenager, and, now, a daughter who's smothered her elderly mother to death. She attends to the kinds of people who, historically, have been doubted, ignored, or shamed into silence. She can describe shocking acts of violence and long periods of recovery in prose that is at once deeply sympathetic and surprisingly maudlin-free...Sebold can still write beautiful, haunting scenes."
--- Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World, 2007.
"Sebold's unblinking authorial gaze is her hallmark: where lesser writers would turn...her scrutiny never wavers."
--- Time, Lev Grossman, 2007.
"It's difficult for any author to handle the pressure of a first-run success, but Sebold has taken it in stride....The Almost Moon is another home run, a story with a plot wholly different from The Lovely Bones but just as beautifully constructed, fearless and fast-paced....impossible to put down....It is neither a sequel to The Lovely Bones nor a replica; instead, it ventures into startling new territory."
--- Ashley Shires, Rocky Mountain News, 2007.
"From the opening line of The Almost Moon...we recognize Alice Sebold's hand: her sensuous yet impeccably direct language, her world where the poignant and the gruesome intertwine. Sebold has a track record of writing so movingly about chilling subjects that she has become something of a cultural bard."
--- Lisa Selzman, Houston Chronicle
