The Lovely Bones Summary
Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long befor... Read more

In the following interview, Sebold discusses her narrative choices in The Lovely Bones and her plans for her next novel. [Darby]: Your memoir [Lucky] focused on rape—your brutal rape when yo... Read more

In the following essay, Mendelsohn complains that The Lovely Bones suffers from poor-quality writing and has the moral, social, and emotional seriousness of sugary pop songs and TV movies of the week.... Read more

In the following review, Dworkin presents a detailed synopsis of the memoir Lucky, preferring it to Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones. Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novel The L... Read more

In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Womack uses the framework of family systems theory to examine acts of narrative therapy and the grieving process pre... Read more

In the following review, Charles admires The Lovely Bones for its utilization of both horror and beauty. Don't start Lovely Bones unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror t... Read more

In the following review, Allardice contends that the characters and narrative of The Lovely Bones are overly conventional and fail to fulfill the novel's potential. “The dead don�... Read more

In the following review, the critic praises Sebold's The Lovely Bones, citing the author's originality and attention to detail. If someone were to recommend to me a book about a murde... Read more

In the following favorable review, Mead suggests that The Lovely Bones feeds America's appetite for horror. Alice Sebold's first novel, The Lovely Bones, was on its 11th US printing b... Read more

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold retells the story of a young girl, Susie Salmon from her point of view while in heaven. Susie is murdered at age 14 by a nearby neighbor, Mr. Harvey and begins the book de... Read more

In her first novel `The Lovely Bones', Alice Sebold explores the effect of a death on a family, and how they can rebuild themselves in the aftermath. The novel causes the reader to rethink their ide... Read more

If there is one central theme in Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones, it would be that families can survive any catastrophe if the member love one another and stick together. In using this theme yo... Read more

Death Rape is one of the most horrible, isolating experiences possible. The quote ."..I kept saying that one word a lot. Don't. And I said please a lot too...almost everyone begged "Please" before ... Read more