Lucky by Alice Sebold

Lucky

Alice Sebold

243 pages first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

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

dark 81%
emotional 77%
sad 64%
reflective 50%
tense 42%
challenging 38%
informative 18%
hopeful 16%
inspiring 16%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 68%
slow 18%
fast 12%

Average rating

3.72

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