Lucky is a 1999 memoir by the American novelist Alice Sebold, best known as the author of the 2002 novel The Lovely Bones. Lucky describes her experience of ...

The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones—a powerful account of her sexual assault at the age of ...

Jun 22, 2023 · "Lucky" tells the story of a rape the author suffered during her freshman year at Syracuse. As memoirs go, the book is nearly sui generis; ...

Aug 4, 1999 · 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 ...

Dec 2, 2021 · Alice Sebold's "Lucky" Reads Very Differently Now. In 1999, writer Alice Sebold published a memoir about her brutal rape almost 20 years prior.

In Lucky, Alice Sebold recounts the night she was raped and how that event and its consequences reverberated throughout her life. The first chapter of this book ...

Dec 5, 2021 · Along with exploring the darkness of trauma and its aftermath, the memoir dramatizes a court case that ends in conviction. "Exhilarating to read ...

Dec 1, 2021 · Lucky, which was published in 1999, sees Sebold recount how she was raped and beaten at the age of 18, in a tunnel near her university campus.

Dec 6, 2021 · After a wrongful conviction, the 1999 memoir recalling the author's rape now feels even more like a horror story.