Lucky - Alice Sebold
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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 âe" as she struggles for understanding (âe~After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyesâe(tm)); 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: âe~You save yourself or you remain unsaved.âe(tm) âe~A rueful, razor-sharp memoir . . . Sebold tells what itâe(tm)s like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what itâe(tm)...
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2002Uitgever: Hachette Book Group243 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 033041836XISBN-13: 9780330418362Koop dit boek tweedehands
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