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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002, Hardcover) 
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002, Hardcover)

 
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002, Hardcover)

Author: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 2002-07-03
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0316666343
ISBN-13: 9780316666343
Product ID: EPID2016528
Description: Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a k...
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Synopsis
Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a kid in heaven. Alice Sebold's novel, which draws on some of her own experiences, became a runaway best-seller as soon as it was published. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Publication Date:2002-07-03

Size
Length:328 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.0 oz

Publisher's Note
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel.

Industry Reviews
"An extraordinary, almost-successful debut that treats sensational material with literary grace....[M]ostly mesmerizing and deserving of the attention it's sure to receive."
Kirkus Reviews (05/01/2002)

"What might play as a sentimental melodrama in the hands of a lesser writer becomes in this volume a keenly observed portrait of familial love and how it endures and changes over time. The novel is an elegy...about a vanished place and time and the loss of childhood innocence. And it is also a deeply affecting meditation on the ways in which terrible pain and loss can be redeemed...through love and acceptance....[Some] lapses do not diminish Ms. Sebold's achievements: the 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."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (06/18/2002)

"The book's conceit, that Susie lives watchfully on, is also the book's deceit. THE LOVELY BONES aims to be, in the end, a feel-good book about rape, torture and murder, and while such an unlikely achievement is remarkable, it is also unsettling in ways that Sebold does not begin to address....The idea of an epidemic of children being snatched by their neighbors amounts to a fantasy...: it's chilling, thrilling and completely unbuttressed by fact. THE LOVELY BONES endows that fantasy with a happy ending. Cuteness, it turns out, is immortal. This is not only untrue; it's distasteful. For all Sebold's deftness, her novel plays into US culture's saccharine sensibility about girls and violence, a sensibility that attends the appetite for horror and is inseparable from it."
London Review of Books - Rebecca Mead (10/03/2002)

"I asked myself, as I read THE LOVELY BONES, what could be the point of having the dead girl narrate the aftermath of her death--what, in other words, this voice could achieve that a standard omniscient narrator couldn't--and it occurred to me that the answer is that Susie is there to provide comfort: not to those who survive her, to whom she can't really make herself known or felt, but to the audience. The real point of Sebold's novel isn't to make you confront dreadful things, but, if anything, to assure you that they have no really permanent consequences....In its proleptic yearning for relief, and indeed in its emphasis on the bathetic appeal of victimhood, its pseudo-therapeutic lingo of healing and insistence that everything is really OK, that we needn't really be sad, that nothing is, in the end, really scary, Sebold's book is indeed timely...."
New York Review of Books - Daniel Mendelsohn (01/16/2002)

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    10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

    We highly recommend this book because it is unusual storytelling.

    If you are twenty-something, with no kids, and you enjoy reading true crime, you will enjoy this novel. We often see this given as a book club recommendation- Please note: This is a very difficult subject for any parent to read, and if you have teenage girls this is going to turn your stomach. If you are a person who cannot stomach reading grisly murder details, this book isn’t for you because the story is contains the graphic scenes of Susie the 14 year old main characters rape and murder.

    Susie begins telling her story from heaven and keeps no secrets from her readers. She tells her heartbreaking story and makes her life before her death, the details of her murder, and what happens to her devastated family after her murder unfold before the reader s eyes. The reader floats with the main characters life she left on earth and her new life in her own heaven.

    After her murder, she constantly worries about her father, mother, sister, brother, and even her dog from heaven. She worries that her murderer will attack someone else and anxious to help her family and Detective Len discover the person who murdered her.

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