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 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 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 hardwon: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
- ISBN:
- 9780330418362
- 9780330418362
- Category:
- Autobiography: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-12-2002
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions (mm):
- 197x130x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.21kg
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