Lucky - Picador Classic (Paperback)

Alice Sebold (author), Madeline Miller (author of introduction)

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Paperback 288 Pages
Published: 07/03/2019

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**In November 2021, Anthony Broadwater, who was convicted of the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold and spent sixteen years in prison, was fully exonerated. Serious failings emerged in the 1982 prosecution, which was based largely on faulty witness identification and flawed science. As a result Anthony Broadwater's life has been irreparably damaged. Alice Sebold's rapist will, in all likelihood, never be known.**

In Lucky Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near her campus.

Though Alice’s friends and family try their best to offer understanding and support, in the end it is Alice’s formidable spirit which resonates most in these pages. In a narrative both painful and moving, Alice Sebold shines a light on the true experience of violent trauma.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509873937
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 247 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 18 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

A rueful, razor-sharp memoir . . . Sebold tells what it’s like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it’s like – slowly, bumpily, triumphantly – to heal. - Sarah Kerr, Vogue

Ms. Sebold [has] the ability to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, the banal and the horrific, in lyrical, unsentimental prose. - New York Times

Alice Sebold

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Philadelphia, Alice Sebold is best known for her internationally bestselling novel The Lovely Bones which was adapted into a successful film in 2010.

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Madeline Miller

An expert in classical history, literature and mythology, American author Madeleine Miller leapt to public notice with her Orange Prize-winning global bestseller The Song of Achilles. Her second novel is an electrifying take on Greek Myth’s most misunderstood deity: Circe.

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