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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 1931078 Users | 39638 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lovely Bones
Author	:	Alice Sebold
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2006 by Little, Brown and Company (first published July 3rd 2002)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Adult

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The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.

The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.

Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.

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Original Title:	The Lovely Bones
ISBN:	0316166685 (ISBN13: 9780316166683)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Susie Salmon, Clarissa, Holly, Jack Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Lindsey Salmon, Buckley Salmon, George Harvey
Setting:	United States of America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(United States) Pennsylvania(United States)
Literary Awards:	Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel (2002), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2003), British Book Award for Best Read of the Year (2004), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2003), California Book Award for First Fiction (Silver) (2002) South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult Book Award (2005), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (2002), Iowa High School Book Award (2005), Puddly Award for Fiction (2003), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2005), Lincoln Award Nominee (2005), Missouri Gateway Readers Award (2005)

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Rating: 2.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at a great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."I hardly ever read books when they are first released. I always seem to be a few years behind, for whatever reason. Sometimes this works to my advantage, as it allows me to avoid a degree of hype that surrounds certain books. I do remember seeing the blue cover of The Lovely Bones on shelves in every bookstore

What a disappointment. I had high hopes with this book. Anyway, though the author doesn't owe me anything, I did feel cheated of my hours invested in The Lovely Bones.Thematically, the book is a mess. The questions we have, both about events in heaven and on earth are left unanswered. I also found myself getting a bit depressed. I usually am like that whenever I read a bad book.But this time I got depressed because I was reading the Lovely Bones. Death is a pitiless side of our cognition, but

She chose to spend her last day with a loved one rather than waste it seeking revenge. I think its a great lesson in how to live your life.

Its a beautiful book

"The Lovely Bones," had me crying from start to finish. This book is extremely emotion packed. But this book was interestingly written because it's from the point of view from a girl who was murdered. The book starts like this: "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Already you want to read it; right? You follow the life that this young girl once had as she tells you about the memories she had, the things she learned, and

Well that wasn't a happy happy good time...The Lovely Bones is going to be difficult to review without spoilers, so if you haven't read it yet I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to leave, m'kay?Why am I not surprised to learn that Alice Sebold was raped at a young age? Because only someone who'd been through something as horrific as that would write a book like this. I'm not just talking about the subject matter, but rather the tone. Everything about this book is a victim's silent scream.