Publishers Weekly, June 17th, 2002
ALICE SEBOLD. Little, Brown, $21.95 (328p) ISBN 0-316-66634-3
Sebold's first novel--after her memoir, Lucky--is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. The novel begins swiftly. In the second sentence, Sebold's narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6,1973." Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains...
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