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SUMMARY: On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon (''like the fish'') is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where ''life is a perpetual yesterday'' and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her ''simplest dreams,'' where ''there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.'' The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called After
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sebold, Alice
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780330457729
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction, Young Adult
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