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	Encyclopedia: Alice Sebold
		Alice Sebold (born in Madison,Wisconsin 1963) is an American writer, best known for the novel The Lovely Bones.
		Sebold's father was a Spanish professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
		The title comes from a comment of local police officers, who told Sebold that she was lucky to have survived as the previous rape victim in the area had been murdered and dismembered.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alice-Sebold (767 words)

	ALICE SEBOLD
		Sebold discovered that the police inspector who took her report wrote that he believed, "after interview of the victim, that this case, as presented by the victim, is not completely factual".
		When Alice Sebold was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Syracuse University in 1981 she was beaten and raped by a stranger in a tunnel in a park near campus on the last night of school year.
		Sebold recognized him from a distance; he walked up to her and actually asked, "Hey, girl, don't I know you from somewhere?" As she hurried away from the chance encounter, she was lucky again: the rapist encountered a police officer right after speaking with her.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /100603.html (10780 words)

	7.30 Report - 25/05/2005: Sebold joins Sydney Writers Festival
		ALICE SEBOLD: I think, in using the title of my book, that as opposed to many victims I was lucky in that I was allowed to use the legal system to exact some sense of justice in my case.
		ALICE SEBOLD: I think anybody who is honest about the way they look at life and what is available to them and out there in the world has to honestly see that those two realities are there all the time for all of us.
		ALICE SEBOLD: I've always thought of it primarily - I mean, obviously I created it by creating Susie, who created her own heaven, but I always think of it as Susie's heaven, not my own, and I arrived at it via the character of Susie.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2005/s1377138.htm (1334 words)

	Alice Sebold, Glen David Gold Appear at UCLA... 12/10/2003
		Alice Sebold and Glen David Gold, two of today's most respected writers — who are also married to each other — visit Royce Hall in readings and discussion of their latest work, as part of UCLA Live's Spoken Word series at 8 p.m.
		Sebold was born in Madison, Wis. Her family moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia when she was a young child.
		Sebold is also the author of a memoir, "Lucky," which recounts her rape at the age of 18 and the court trial that followed.
	newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=4785 (887 words)

	Award-Winning UCI Author Alice Sebold Discusses Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sebold gave a two-part presentation in which she related her experiences and that of other contemporary writers during their literary careers, as well as answered questions from the audience.
		Sebold: A couple things are true, you know, women are the largest amount of readers in America, but my friend Cathy and I have this phrase, it's called "the big boy book." "The big boy book" gets a lot of attention in publishing.
		Sebold: I worked a lot of different jobs and became a competent New Yorker, which is no small task, and went through a lot of stuff, and rediscovered reading on my own and I became more honest to who I was, which matters a lot.
	www.newu.uci.edu /archive/2000-2001/spring/010430/f-010430-alice.html (1753 words)

	village voice > books > The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold by Joy Press
		Sebold lays out family dynamics with delicate precision, illustrating the emotional costs of rebuilding and the impossibility of replicating the old structure.
		Sebold maps pinpricks of emotion that radiate over the town's surface as people's memories of the dead girl or fears for their own children's safety flare up and then fade.
		Sebold's debut is a remarkably effervescent book in which we witness a young woman come of age, even though she will never grow up.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0225/press.php (914 words)

	Reviews
		Sebold vividly describes the effects of the rape on family members, friends and other people in her entourage.
		While Sebold does return to childhood scenes, it suffices in terms of the amount of detail and length as it provides the reader with a context or backdrop for the events that later transpire.
		Alice Sebold has written an important book which will remain a relevant depiction of the ramifications of rape, shattering as it does some of the delusions and misconceptions our society still hold regarding the perpetrators and victims of rape.
	www.cercles.com /review/r10/sebold.html (1234 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Lucky: A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sebold takes us through not only the excruciating physical particulars of her ordeal, but the wrenching emotional aftermath as well.
		Sebold's own circle of relatives are portrayed as having been almost gothically dysfunctional long before the rape, and the subtext of those relationships is as riveting as the narrative of the author's ordeal.
		Sebold's mordant humor is the glue that holds all the pieces--of herself, her family and the book--together.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/search.jsp?mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN&srchTerms=0316096199 (438 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		Sebold begins this novel with an awful, awful thing -- the rape and murder of a 14-year-old, as related by the victim from heaven -- and builds from it an aching chronicle of hope, humor, and ironically, survival.
		On her selection, Sebold notes, "I do think it is an extraordinary novel and the idea of having an older main character is always compelling for a book group, I think." Sebold also selected The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor and The Mirror by Lynn Freed as potential book club picks.
		Now in paperback, Alice Sebold's 1999 account of her freshman year rape and its aftermath is a wrenching, clear-eyed examination of a brutal crime and the effort to bring its perpetrator to justice.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=996944 (267 words)

	Teenreads.com -- THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold
		Any sensationalism imputed to Alice Sebold, the author, or her publisher, for the timing of it would be worse than wrong-headed; it would be deliberately and maliciously ignorant on any number of levels.
		Sebold's bag of talents is large enough and complete enough that THE LOVELY BONES never even approaches the maudlin; readers, however, will be moved to tears several times during their encounter with this work.
		That Sebold is able to elicit sorrow, righteous anger, regret, and ultimately, hope through a narrative of events in a voice rarely raised above a peaceful whisper is a statement to the level of her artistry.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0316666343.asp (559 words)

	Alice Sebold
		This is how Alice Sebold begins the narrative of her rape, which took place the day before she returned home to Pennsylvania after her freshman year at Syracuse University.
		It wasn’t until more than 15 years after the rape that Sebold was able to begin the research that allowed her to write about the experience and its aftermath.
		Sebold sends Alice up to get her: "Alice, I think it would mean a lot if you went up to talk to her," (64).
	www.notesinthemargin.org /sebold.html (1127 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Hardcover
		Alice Sebold had alot of creativity and discription when she wrote about the heaven in the book, and that kept the book intresting.
		Sebold's ability to create the rhythms and interactions within a family torn with tragedy are remarkably established in the novel The Lovely Bones.
		Sebold writes about how the girl lives up in heaven and watches what her family is going through after her death.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0316666343 (1330 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lucky: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alice Sebold tells the raw story of her rape ordeal and her subsequent struggle for recovery with an honesty and warmth which is compelling.
		Alice Sebold was the innocent victim of an unforgivable crime - but she doesn't ask for our sympathy or pity in these beautifully written pages.
		The past can never be forgotten, but Alice Sebold has managed to crawl from the wreckage and move on with her life to a happier future that has brought her international fame and acclaim.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/033041836X (891 words)

	Sebold, Alice: Lucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Alice Sebold, author of the best-selling novel, The Lovely Bones (see this database), was completing her freshmen year at Syracuse University, she was assaulted and raped.
		In point of fact, Sebold, a virgin before the rape, was in a sense murdered, since life as she had known it would never be the same: "My life was over; my life had just begun" (33).
		Sebold had to be extraordinarily self possessed and determined to withstand not only the rape, but also the trial experience.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/sebold12067-des-.html (551 words)

	Review \| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
		The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, turns this idea upside down, revealing in the opening paragraph that her narrator, 14-year-old Susie Salmon, is dead, the victim of a rape and murder.
		Sebold expertly chronicles each character's new reality, contrasting it subtly, if that's possible, with the lives they might have led if Susie were still alive.
		Sebold does that and more, in ways that are surprising, unpredictable and invented, seemingly, by the characters themselves.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/lovelybones.html (660 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Lovely Bones: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.
		Eloquently written, beautiful in places, Sebold manages to capture in her debut novel the very real thoughts and emotions of all the players in the story as they struggle to bring their lives back into some kind of order, each of them different but linked by their loss.
		Alice Sebold doesn't know whether the past tense of 'dive' is 'dived' or 'dove', she uses both, and no-one at her publishers knows either.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330485385 (1162 words)

	Nancy McCabe. -Book Review "Lucky" by Alice Sebold for Literary Potpourri
		Sebold creates similar effects in Lucky but by a different route, her candid voice and linear presentation a contrast to her novel's omniscient sensibility and more fluid sense of time.
		Sebold's trademark honesty is itself risky, but ultimately is what gives the story its authenticity and power.
		In the end, Sebold's triumph is an ambiguous one, her healing haunted by setbacks as she flounders through drug dependency and sexual experimentation.
	www.literarypotpourri.com /003_02/br_01.html (744 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lovely Bones: A Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace.
		Sebold's most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie's heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one.
		I loved how Alice Sebold also used very different emotions for all of the characters and showed how they all interacted, such as the father seeking revenge, the mother coping with the loss of a daughter, the sister finding love, and the brother feeling neglected.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316666343?v=glance (2595 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Readings
		Sebold asks readers to take a giant leap from the novel's first sentences: "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.
		Sebold leads readers through these transformations with prose that is clean and crisp.
		Most striking is Sebold's mastery of a teenager's voice, from such small details as Susie's Strawberry-Banana Kissing Potion to her completely believable thought processes.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-08-09/books_readings.html (546 words)

	Lucky by Alice Sebold, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0684857820
		Sebold launches her memoir headlong into the rape itself, laying out its visceral physical as well as mental violence, and from there spins a narrative of her life before and after the incident, weaving memories of parental alcoholism together with her post-rape addiction to heroin.
		Sebold was raped as a college freshman, but the police said she was "lucky." At least she wasn't murdered and dismembered like the girl before her.
		Alice Seabold, best known for her novel, "Lovely Bones" has served us well with this telling memoir of painful emotions and difficult occurances that led her to the point of coming full circle.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0684857820 (1101 words)

	Alice Sebold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, her fictional debut The Lovely Bones became an unexpected number one best-seller thanks in part to pre-release praise from novelist/journalist, Anna Quindlen.
		Peter Jackson, the famed director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is adapting this book to the big screen for release in 2007.
		Sebold is married to novelist Glen David Gold.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Sebold (278 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
		Sebold explained in an interview about the novel that murderers "are not animals but men," and that is what makes them so frightening.
		Alice Sebold seems to be saying that out of tragedy comes healing.
		Sebold's achievements: her ability to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, the banal and the horrific, in lyrical, unsentimental prose; her instinctive understanding of the mathematics of love between parents and children; her gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family."
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/lovely_bones1.asp (1214 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold
		Sebold, who is herself the survivor of a vicious assault (recounted in her memoir "Lucky"), presents Susie's death unflinchingly, but much of the rest of the book proceeds to soothe the reader, constructing in retrospect the wholesome world this crime has marred.
		Eventually, teetering under the burden of their loss, Susie's parents' marriage fractures, but Sebold makes it clear that the cracks in their relationship, however fine, existed before their daughter makes a fatal and ill-advised decision to take a shortcut through the cornfield.
		Sebold isn't euphemistic, doesn't look away when this character ecstatically recalls dismembering Susie's body, but she doesn't linger over it, either.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/08/01/sebold/index.html (863 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Lovely Bones: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sebold really demonstrated the way in which an entire town can be rocked by the death of one child.
		Sebold never explains what heaven is for, whom it is for, why the characters do what they do, etc. If this was a comedic novel (as Angel Face is), none of this would matter.
		Sebold offers a comforting picture for anyone that has ever lost someone close, where they are at peace and watch over those they have left behind until they are ready to let go.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316168815 (1996 words)

	Steven Barclay Agency - Alice Sebold
		Three months after the publication of The Lovely Bones, Sebold’s 1999 memoir Lucky, an account of her rape at the age of 18 and the trial that followed, was issued in paperback.
		She is a firm believer in what she calls “the covert role” that education provides, feeling strongly that her own life was saved by a variety of teachers and professionals whom she met during her college years.
		Sebold’s work is taught in English departments across the country.
	www.barclayagency.com /sebold_print.html (330 words)

	Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It doesn’t justify these things - if anything, the killer in Sebold’s book is an older type, one borne of isolation and illness, but peculiarly encouraged by the distended outskirts of suburban life.
		As Sebold’s first work of fiction (further info can be found here) The Lovely Bones is a stark and sometimes darkly funny look at how we cope (or don’t) when a loved one dies.
		Sebold’s writing talent is obvious, her nous for characters and their mannerisms assured.
	home.iprimus.com.au /laurapalmer/lovelybones.htm (286 words)

	12.03.2003 - Alice Sebold waxes prosaic
		Sebold keeps her desk piled high with art books by Modgliani, environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, and English gardener Tasha Tudor, as well as with various other tomes by the likes of Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Colette, art historian Robert Hughes, and the little-known novelist J.L. Carr.
		Sebold keeps a photograph of a very young Princess Elizabeth of England tacked to a fiber-core board on her wall, a photo that she says challenges her to “try to follow that root into the unimaginable life” of her characters.
		Sebold keeps a sign on her desk that reads “Revolution of Beauty.” Her approach, she said, is not to draw attention to her message by being loud and bombastic.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2003/12/03_sebold.shtml (860 words)

	Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alice Sebold's debut novel, The Lovely Bones, is a coming of age story...
		It takes place in Heaven, where Susie Salmon, fourteen and murdered in a cornfield by a neighbor who happens to be a serial killer, watches over her grieving family and friends, and keeps tabs on her murderer and the detective assigned to her case.
		Alice Sebold is a lovely writer; her prose is clear but magical.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_sebold_lovelybones.html (525 words)

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