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The Lovely Bones - Picador Classic (Paperback)
Alice Sebold (author), Karen Thompson Walker (author of introduction)Published: 01/01/2015
Approaching loss and grief with sensitivity and emotional intelligence, Sebold’s bestselling novel also presents one of the most fully realised evocations of heaven in contemporary literature. The heartbreaking tale of a girl in the afterlife unable to let go of the temporal realm, The Lovely Bones is a thoroughly engaging and rewarding read.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker.
The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson.
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.
In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for - except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on earth. In the wake of her murder, Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize, even in death, life is not quite out of reach . . .
A luminous, astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published. There are now over ten million copies in print. It inspired the film starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447275206
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 246 g
Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Moving and compelling . . . It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed - Maggie O'Farrell, Sunday Telegraph
Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . The Lovely Bones is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing - The Times
Takes the stuff of terrible tragedy and transforms it into something hopeful and redemptive - Daily Mail
[Sebold] has created a novel that is painfully fine and accomplished, one which readers will have their own difficulties relinquishing, long after the last page is turned - Los Angeles Times
A chilling juxtaposition of innocence against evil - New Statesman
Sebold has given us a fantasy-fable of great authority, charm, and daring. She's a one-of-a-kind writer - Jonathan Franzen
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