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Lucky 2 csillagozás
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
Várólistára tette 5
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Kiemelt értékelések
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.
Népszerű idézetek
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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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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