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 hard-won: You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
- ISBN
9780330418362
- Published
- June 6th 2003 by Pan Macmillan
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 272
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130
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