Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. I was fourteen when i was murdered on december 6, 1973, susie salmon tells us in the second sentence of the lovely bones. When the lovely bones came out it was an instant bestseller and one of those wordofmouth books that seemed to be everywhere. Having said that, i did find the book to be slow in some part and even boring if i dare say i know a lot of people love this book, ha.
The lovely bones by alice sebold, karen thompson walker. Alice sebold born september 6, 1963 is an american writer. The story opens with the voice of fourteenyearold susie salmon who tells of her rape and murder by her neighbor. 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. Anticipating little assistance from her moms and dads, she connected to her peers with occasionally shocking results. The lovely bones by alice sebold four stars out of five the lovely bones is an amazing book. Alice sebold s most popular book is the lovely bones. Includes a chapter from his new book bridge of clay. The characters and events in this book are fictitious.
Her work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has appeared in the new york times and the guardian, among other publications. Aug 16, 2002 the lovely bones by alice sebold 328pp, picador. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. Sebolds writing is charming and graceful, giving hope to a terrible tragedy. It is, above all, a novel which finds light in the darkest of places, and shows how even when that light seems to be utterly extinguished, it. Winner of the national book awards richard and judy best read of the year 2004, and the specsavers platinum bestseller award 2017.
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