Outside the family, others are touched by the death. Her father is obsessed with finding her killer her mother pulls away from the family, trying to escape into a different kind of life altogether her sister Lindsey hardens herself behind a fence of public denial and rejection of sympathy and her younger brother Buckley maintains a secret anger at his mother's rejection of him but remains vulnerable to love. In Susie's family, her disappearance (which they must accept as her death, although the body is never found) explodes within her tightknit family like a bomb, tearing them apart as they each struggle to move past the tragedy. We are spared therapy, cloying sentimentalism and melodrama, even though the story is almost entirely about emotion and the almost-impossibility of dealing with great loss, grief and the ensuing loneliness that chases everyone deep within themselves.
In The Lovely Bones, the narrator's voice floats free, omnipresent, detached from the world but not from longing or from love. That way, it allowed me to go back and write a novel that was free of any of that need to write about rape," she told the Literature: Contemporary website. "Instead of writing an autobiographical first novel I wrote a memoir. Having dispensed with her own terrible story, she felt freer to enter a purely fictional world. She was still working on the novel 18 months later when she decided to take a break and write a memoir, Lucky, describing the true story of her brutal assault and rape by a stranger when she was a freshman in college. The first chapter was written in an hour or two and has scarcely undergone any rewriting since.
Struggling with a much lesser script one day, she says she simply sat down after a brief break and found Susie's voice pouring from her. It just goes to show you should never give up this is Sebold's first published novel, written after she had almost relinquished hope of making it into print.
The book has been seriously popular in the United States and has climbed the bestseller lists in the publishing world. Susie was not his first victim, and several more follow. She also watches her attacker, a creepy maker of dolls' houses, who had been her family's neighbour but who moves on soon after murdering Susie. By MARGIE THOMSON Alice Sebold's lovely, strange fable is an unusual candidate for popular status: it is told in the voice of 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who has been raped and murdered and is narrating from heaven, where she watches her family and friends struggling in the aftermath of her disappearance.
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