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Alice Sebold: Lucky Alice Sebold: Lucky Alice Sebold: Lucky Alice Sebold: Lucky Alice Sebold: Lucky

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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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1999

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Picador, London, 2010
254 oldal · ISBN: 9780330521017
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Scribner, New York, 2009
256 oldal · ISBN: 9781439130858
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Picardor, London, 2004
252 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 0330438832

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Alice Sebold: Lucky

Szörnyű, hogy mik meg nem történnek a mai világban. Csodálom Alice Seboldot a bátorságáért, amiért túllépett ezen és megírta a történetét. A fél csillag levonás azért, mert kicsit zagyva néhol.

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mrsp>!

In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.

mrsp>!

Knowing a victim is like knowing a celebrity. Particularly when the crime is clouded in taboo. When I was doing research for this book, back in Syracuse, I met a woman like this. Without recognizing me at first, only knowing I was writing a book on Alice Sebold's rape case, she hurried in from another room and told me and those assisting me that „the victim in that case was my best friend.” I had no idea who she was.

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mrsp>!

At that moment I signed myself over to him. I was convinced that I would not live. I could not fight anymore. He was going to do what he wanted to me. That was it.

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People think a woman stops fighting when she is physically exhausted, but I was about to begin my real fight, a fight of words and lies and the brain.

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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times.

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„I forgive you,” I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

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Every inch of my skin prickled and burned. I wanted him off of me. I wanted to shower and scrub my skin raw.

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I couldn't see Valium as the benign drug the doctor made it out to be. I told him this but he pooh-poohed it. When he left the room I did what I knew I would do almost immediately, and crumpled up the prescription to throw it into the waste bin. It felt good to do it. A sort of „fuck you” to the idea that anyone could sweep this thing I'd suffered under the carpet..

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I saw my face in the mirror. I reached my hand up to touch the marks and cuts. That was me. It was also an undeniable truth: No shower would wipe the traces of the rape away.

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