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Lucky by Sebold, Alice is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Lucky about?

Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed but did not sink the woman she later became. It is Alice's indomitable spirit that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event. No less gripping is the almost unbelievable role that c

Who reads Lucky?

Author

Sebold, Alice

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316096195

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Law

Rating

3.77 / 5 (313 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13