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    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Lovely Bones with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, a thought-provoking novel about death and the ways we cope with grief. It is narrated by Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who has been murdered and is watching over her family from the afterlife. As her friends and younger siblings grow up, experiencing aspects of life that she never had the chance to explore while she was alive, Susie tries to live on vicariously through them, even as her father becomes obsessed with finding her killer. The Lovely Bones is Alice Sebold’s debut novel, and remains her best-known work. It was adapted for the screen by the director Peter Jackson in 2009.

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    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateApr 3, 2019
    ISBN9782808017640
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      The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      AMERICAN WRITER

      Born in Madison (U.S.A) in 1963.

      Notable works:

      Lucky (1999), memoir

      The Almost Moon (2007), novel

      Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In 1981, she moved to New York to attend Syracuse University. During her freshman year, she was raped while walking home through a park. She reported it to the police, who initially could not identify any suspects. Five months later, she recognised her rapist and notified the police. Her rapist was convicted of rape and sodomy and sentenced to eight to 25 years in prison. He has since been released, but Sebold has stated that she does not know where he is now. After university, she moved to Manhattan and then South Carolina. She held several waitressing jobs whilst attempting to begin her writing career. Her first work, Lucky, a memoir centred on her experience of rape, began as a 10-page assignment for university. Then, aged 33, she began writing The Lovely Bones, which

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