This sounds like a great book. I just joined another ring of yours (I'm a Stranger Here Myself). Can you just try to place me on the list so that both books arrive at different times?
I am in the US and can ship internationally. My BC name is randomelement Thanks for offering this ring. Take Care! Kecia On 4/23/06, Lisa Gardinier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from dust jacket: > > 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 really > recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see > Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience > in the aftermath of this harrowing life-changing event. > > No less gripping is the almost unbelievable role that coincidence plays in > the unfolding of Sebold's narrative. Her case, placed in the inactive file, > is miraculously opened again six months later when she sees her rapist on > the street. This begins the long road to what dominates these pages: the > struggle for triumph and understanding -- in the courtroom and outside in > the world. > > Lucky is, quite simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and > narrative tension we never lose sight of why this life story is worth > reading. At the end we are left standing in the wake of devastating > violence, and, like the writer, we have come to know what it means to > survive. > > copyright 1999, 254 pages, hardcover > > http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3762130 > > If you're interested in joining this bookring, send me a PM (dospescados) > or e-mail with your BC name and shipping preferences. > > Happy reading. =) > > Lisa (dospescados) > > -- > _______________________________________________ > > Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow > Pages > > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > > > Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend > > Archives and email list settings: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > - Visit your group > "BookCrossing<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing>" > on the web. > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------ > -- Seaside Lingerie Sale! Thongs starting at .99 cents, Cotton Cami's $2.50, B-Cup Bras starting at .50 cents http://stores.ebay.com/seasidelingerie?refid=store [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
