PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780330544627
- Categories Biographies and Memoirs, BX, BXOS, NF BIO, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities, Whateversary
- Author(s) Alice Sebold
- Publisher Picador
- Pages 254
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 19.7cm x 1.5cm x 13.1cm
- Weight 0.24 kg
product description
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 - 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.