THE BOOK FAIR
READ AND FULFILL YOUR LIFE
Alice Sebold
THE
LOVELY
BONES
Author: Alice Sebold
Published: 2002
Genre: Fiction
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 328
Review:
The story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen year old girl, who was murdered by a serial killer, and the repercussions of her death upon her family, the events related by Susie.
Although Susie is dead on earth, she is not dead in heaven. From her heavenly place, she watches the search for her unfold. Susie tries to guide the police and her family to her whereabouts but cannot reach them. To her surprise, as she watches her distraught family and friends try to cope with her demise, and she learns she must also cope with her end as well.
Interesting plot technique in that the victim narrates the story.
l u c k y
Author: Alice Sebold
Published: 1999
Genre: Memoir
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 246
Review:
Alice Sebold relates the story of an assault she suffered while a freshman at Syracuse, in May 1981. Sebold writes of her struggle to recover and of her family’s inability to understand her.
The memoir, detailed, descriptive, and clearly written, is her best book.
THE
ALMOST MOON
Author: Alice Saebold
Published: 2007
Genre: Fiction
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 291
Review:
The first line of the book reads: “When all was said and done, killing my mother came easily.” Helen Knightly then proceeds to hide her dead mother, Claire, in the house.
Over the next twenty-four hours, Helen decides to sleep with the teenage son of a friend, to inform her ex-husband of her crime, who comes to her aid, and spends the hours ruminating over her unhappy childhood, her father’s suicide, her mother’s mental illness, and her past and present relationships.
A bizarre novel that bears no resemblance to “Lucky” or “Lovely Bones.”