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Lucky: A Memoir

by Alice Sebold

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 ad 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... (more)

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  • Rated 5 stars

“I normally hate most memoirs because they are often self-pitying and self absorbed. That isn't the case with this one one because despite the fact that Sebold is dealing with a tragic event in her life she focuses more on the power she found in herself to live through it and is well aware that there are people who suffer more than she has. Each of Sebold's books deal with the aftermath of a violent act and how it effects the people around it. This is tough stuff but she is one of our best...”

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Olivia R
  • Rated 1 stars

“I was really anticipating this book because of Lovely Bones... But this book was such a drag and I didn't even finish it. It was that boring.”

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  • Rated 3.777703 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Deanna M

    deanna m said:

    “Hey I did the rapist end up being convicted? I totally forget and I want to know without reading the book again. Thanks!!”

    posted Monday, April 13 2009
  • Astrari

    astrari said:

    “This is her first book that I've read, and I have to say, I think her writing is amazing. She can be so funny about certain episodes in her life, depite the fact that they're in the same book in which she just describe her horribly brutal rape. I actually haven't finished it yet, but I've read most of it and plan to finish once the semester ends.”

    posted Sunday, November 16 2008
  • saran

    saran said:

    “I have become a huge fan of Alice Sebold's writing. I heard huge reviews on Lovely Bones that reading that book I was immediately drawn to finding her other books. Lucky was fantastically written and I look forward to her future books.”

    posted Wednesday, May 28 2008
  • mandypandy

    mandypandy said:

    “I'll be honest..I hadn't read Lovely Bones when I started Lucky...I got a cheap copy of it at the used book store and just randomly picked it off my shelf one night before going to bed...big mistake.lol. For the most part the book wasn't that bad...but the first few chapters with the rape scene....really made it hard for me to sleep that night as I'm a single female LIVING ALONE! Books don't tend to get me all up in a panic like that...but those first few chapters really worked on my nerves....overall...I think this is a really important book for anyone to read..especially women.”

    posted Friday, February 29 2008
  • SweetNLow

    sweetnlow said:

    “Just started this book. I had read her other two books first, and liked them. ”

    posted Sunday, February 24 2008

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