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bookshelves: good-more-than-once, non-fiction, would-rec, crazypeoplememoirs, memoirs
Jun 28, 2007
bookshelves: good-more-than-once, non-fiction, would-rec, crazypeoplememoirs, memoirs
i read this before i read Lovely Bones, in part because i wanted to see how she dealt with her own history, in part because well, i'm a sucker for memoirs. i classify this as a crazypeoplememoir not lightly - my definition of "crazy" is a little loose.
alice sebold was raped by someone she didn't know as an undergraduate at syracuse university.
what i love about this book is that sebold doesn't fall into the normal tradition of "victim" memoirs. she doesn't blame other people - even her attacker. she accepts that this horrible thing happened to her, and then she tells her story of how she pulled herself out of the hole, how she fought against being a victim, how she fought with herself.
she is no elizabeth wurtzel, and i love her for that. she doesn't take too much blame, and she doesn't push it off on others - it's the story of someone who has adjusted, who has had something horrible happened to them and come out on top. she didn't write this for pity, she wrote this because it was her story. and i fully respect her for that.
alice sebold was raped by someone she didn't know as an undergraduate at syracuse university.
what i love about this book is that sebold doesn't fall into the normal tradition of "victim" memoirs. she doesn't blame other people - even her attacker. she accepts that this horrible thing happened to her, and then she tells her story of how she pulled herself out of the hole, how she fought against being a victim, how she fought with herself.
she is no elizabeth wurtzel, and i love her for that. she doesn't take too much blame, and she doesn't push it off on others - it's the story of someone who has adjusted, who has had something horrible happened to them and come out on top. she didn't write this for pity, she wrote this because it was her story. and i fully respect her for that.
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January 1, 1998
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June 28, 2007
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June 28, 2007
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I'm basically done but now i have to do a law book report on this book so one of the questions are what are the legal issues in the book "Lucky"?,can some one give me the answer to my question please
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I disagree. She absolutely did blame her attacker, and she was filled to overflowing with rage because of what he did. I think it fueled her to stay focused and see the trial through.
I'm extremly looking forward to reading this memoir, it's on order for me now. I'm a fan of her work and am interested in her story. I am reading 'prozac nation' by elizabeth wurtzel at the moment and was just wondering what you meant by the shes no EW comment? have you read prozac nation or has EW written another memoir?
btw im a sucker for memoirs too, any good reccomendations?
This book is a fiction that jailed an innocent man for 16 years. She made millions based on a LIE
