Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold

Lucky: A Memoir

Alice Sebold

246 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

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 and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of he...

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Moods

emotional 80%
dark 78%
sad 65%
reflective 48%
tense 42%
challenging 38%
hopeful 19%
informative 19%
inspiring 15%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 68%
slow 17%
fast 14%

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