Lucky

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• Rape me

  Alice Sebold ricorda lo stupro subito a diciott’anni nel romanzo autobiografico “Lucky”di Claudia Bonadonna “Nella galleria in cui fui violentata, ex ingresso sotterraneo di un anfiteatro da cui gli attori irrompevano sulla scena passando sotto le gr ... (read full critics)

  railibro published on Thu, 16 Feb 2012

• Lucky

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Lucky, opera di Alice Sebold edita da Edizioni E/O. Alice Sebold ci consegna il resoconto dello stupro subito all'età di diciotto anni. Il suo Lucky non tralascia alcun particolare, i più segreti ingranaggi psicolo ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Thu, 1 Dec 2011

7 Reviews

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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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  SheReads said on Mar 6, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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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)

  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 the 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 prodoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

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  meganzing said on Feb 16, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Now, I'm not about to say that rape shouldn't be written about, or that victims should be quiet, not at all; it's just that I didn't like the author's way of writing. It really left me with the feeling of annoyance, which is a crap feeling if the book you're reading is about rape. Maybe it's only me ... (continue)

  Now, I'm not about to say that rape shouldn't be written about, or that victims should be quiet, not at all; it's just that I didn't like the author's way of writing. It really left me with the feeling of annoyance, which is a crap feeling if the book you're reading is about rape. Maybe it's only me being cynical, but in any case, these are just my 2 cents.

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  Viollka said on May 25, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This book can be a very hard book for some to read due to the graphic details. Alice Sebold though is a wonderful author and wrote amazingly how rape and life after rape can affect a young person. Amazing story that I might just read again.

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  Jonealle7 said on Jan 14, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  An excellent well written account of her brutal rape, an emotional and therefore difficult read. However would recommend it highly to others. It was fifteen years after she was raped that Alice Sebold wrote this memoir and even after this length of time it must have tken courage to write about somet ... (continue)

  An excellent well written account of her brutal rape, an emotional and therefore difficult read. However would recommend it highly to others. It was fifteen years after she was raped that Alice Sebold wrote this memoir and even after this length of time it must have tken courage to write about something so personal that effected her so deeply. I admire her for doing so and am glad I read it.

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  Lindyloumac said on Oct 2, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Gritty

  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)

  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 for her recovery.

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  Marion the librarian said on Jan 12, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0330475258
• ISBN-13: 9780330475259
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Pub date: Sep 30, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
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