The Ravishing Bones by Alice Sebold

The Ravishing Bones by Alice Sebold

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E-newsletter Year: 2002 Layout: Hardcover
Language: English ISBN:

9780316666343

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Synopsis
On her scheme home from college on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-twelve months-ancient Susie Salmon (“handle the fish”) is lured correct into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the most up-to-date victim of a serial killer– the person she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking debut fresh, The Ravishing Bones, unfolds from heaven, where “lifestyles is a perpetual the day gone by” and where Susie narrates and keeps behold over her grieving family and guests, to boot to her brazen killer and the sad detective engaged on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her procure model of heaven. Susie’s resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban excessive college: a heaven of her “simplest dreams,” where “there had been no teachers…. We by no methodology needed to transfer internal excluding for art class…. The boys didn’t pinch our backsides or say us we smelled; our textbooks had been Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.” The Ravishing Bones works as an irregular yet affecting coming-of-age legend. Susie struggles to settle for her death while tranquil clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family’s dramas through the years handle an episode of My So-Known as Afterlife. Her family disintegrates of their difficulty: her father becomes sure to procure her killer, her mother withdraws, her microscopic brother Buckley makes an strive to assemble sense of the unique hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves by scheme of the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed alternatives bustle within the midst of the book–Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as “handle an accident–a agreeable trying gas rainbow.” Although sentimental at cases, The Ravishing Bones is a difficult exploration of loss and mourning that in a roundabout scheme puts its faith within the living and that’s made unparalleled more unparalleled by a forged of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates an out of this world ticket, and despite the very fact that things are inclined to wrap up a microscopic little bit of too successfully for everyone within the cease, one can fully have faith (or hope) that heaven is indeed a plan stuffed with such chuffed endings. –Brad Thomas Parsons Sebold’s spell binding and vivid first fresh–a #1 national bestseller–builds a story stuffed with hope, humor, suspense, and even pleasure, following an unspeakable tragedy. When we first meet 14-twelve months-ancient Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This became sooner than milk carton photos and public provider announcements, she tells us; lend a hand in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, folks tranquil believed these objects didn’t happen. Within the sweet, untroubled teach of a precocious teenage woman, Susie relates the grim events of her death and her procure adjustment to the uncommon unique plan she finds herself. It appears to be plenty handle her college playground, with the ethical more or much less swing sets. With esteem, longing, and a rising understanding, Susie watches her family as they take care of their difficulty, her father embarks on a look for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of fantastic bold, her microscopic brother builds a castle in her honor and begin the hard strategy of healing. Within the fingers of a ideal novelist, the author narrates the THE LOVELY BONES by scheme of the eyes of her a success young heroine. This legend of reputedly unbearable tragedy is transformed correct into a suspenseful and touching legend about family, reminiscence, esteem, heaven, and living.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0316666343
ISBN-13 9780316666343
eBay Product ID (ePID) 2016528

Key Critical factors
Author Alice Sebold
Number Of Pages 336 pages
Layout Hardcover
E-newsletter Date 2002-07-03
Language English
Publisher Itsy-bitsy Brown & Firm
E-newsletter Year 2002

Extra Critical factors
Copyright Date 2002

Dimensions
Weight 16 Oz19459034]
Top 1.2 In.
Width 5.8 In.
Dimension 8.8 In.

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Classification Scheme
LCCN 2001-050622
LC Classification Number PS3619.E26L68 2002
Dewey Decimal 813/.6
Dewey Version 21

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