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Lucky

The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life.

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Main Author:	Sebold, Alice (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scribner, 2017.
Edition:	Scribner trade paperback edition.
Subjects:	Sebold, Alice > Biography. Rape victims > United States > Case studies. Trials (Rape) > United States > Case studies. Rape > United States. Rapists > Attitudes. Women > Crimes against > United States. College students > Crimes against > United States. Autobiographies.
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Summary:	The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life.
Item Description:	Includes new Afterword (pages 255-268) and Reading group guide. Reprint with a new afterword by the author. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1999.
Physical Description:	xv, 268 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781501171635 1501171631
Author Notes:	Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She attended college at Syracuse University. She was raped as a freshman. Her first book, Lucky, is a memoir which tells the story of that event in her life and its aftermath. Following graduation from Syracuse, she went to the University of Houston for her graduate degree and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her other books include The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon. She won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 for The Lovely Bones and the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002. In 2009 a feature film was released of The Lovely Bones starring Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz. (Bowker Author Biography)