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Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She attended college at Syracuse University. She was raped as a freshman. Her first book, Lucky, is a memoir which tells the story of that event in her life and its aftermath. Following graduation from Syracuse, she went to the näytä lisää University of Houston for her graduate degree and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her other books include The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon. She won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 for The Lovely Bones and the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002. In 2009 a feature film was released of The Lovely Bones starring Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007

Tekijän teokset

Oma taivas (2002) 35,708 kappaletta
Lucky (1999) 5,750 kappaletta
The Almost Moon (2007) 4,158 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 2009 (2009) — Toimittaja — 363 kappaletta
Sebold, Alice 2 kappaletta
2005 1 kappale
AFORTUNADA 1 kappale
Quase Noite (2008) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Salainen puutarha (1911) — Johdanto, eräät painokset34,948 kappaletta
Lovely Bones - Oma taivas (2010) — Original book — 97 kappaletta
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers (2005) — Avustaja — 48 kappaletta

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I read about 10 pages & put it down. I just couldn't get into it. I may pick it up again in the future.
 
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thatnerd | 179 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 2, 2024 |
Very difficult read, the story was haphazard and awkward.
 
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eboods | 179 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 28, 2024 |
The Lovely Bones is a remarkable and gently moving feat of POI sustained by an omniscience that, at the beginning, I suspected would run its course and fall flat – but it didn't. We not only watch a murderer at work but also see the consequences of the crime on family, friends and community.
These were the lovely bones that had grown round my absence: the connections – sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent – that happened after I was gone. (p. 320)

It's a story where love and presence are the binding forces in a world where absence is manifestly present. Where people and ordinary things, even suburban lives, can vanish in literal or metaphorical sinkholes. Where relationships matter
Her journal was her most important relationship. It held everything. (p.252)

The more I reflect on this book, the more intricately constructed it becomes. Some writers don’t know how to end a book Alice Sebold does: powerful yet understated. A masterpiece!
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simonpockley | 937 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 25, 2024 |
This is a difficult book to review and it's not a book I would have picked up on my own. A friend loaned it to me to read. For starters, it opens with a woman who kills her elderly, sick, mentally ill mother and the crazy behavior doesn't stop there. I found it deeply depressing. Alice Sebold is a good writer and there are images from that book that will stick with me so I'm not sure if that makes it a "good" book even though it was not enjoyable. But I probably wouldn't put it on my recommended reading list for just anyone.… (lisätietoja)
 
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45,989
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