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Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.
Sebold fulfills a promise that she made Continue
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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 st ... (continue)
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If you can call Alice Sebold's memoir of her rape and the trial that followed during her first years of college "good," then this is a great book. Thank God I've never been through the harrowing experience of rape, but I felt my cheeks burn when she spoke of her shame (on many levels), and I cheer f ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback 272 Pages
- ISBN-10: 033041836X
- ISBN-13: 9780330418362
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Jun 06, 2003
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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I liked the perspective Sebold used. She wrote as she would have spoken at that age. You could really tell her age. There are many points in this book I would have appreciated more detail. The opening scene was very graphic and intense.
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