The Lovely Bones (Paperback)by Alice Sebold |
 | Title : The Lovely Bones (Paperback) Author : Alice Sebold ISBN : 9780316044400 Language : English Category : Fiction Subject : Popular Fiction Publication Year : 2009 Publisher : Little, Brown & Company Pages : 372 Binding : Softcover Condition : Good - light wear on covers Product Code : 35052 Product Dimensions Height (mm) : 182 Width (mm) : 110 Thickness (mm) : 30 Weight (grams) : 191 When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their grief her father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honor and begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living. |
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