Skip to main content
Click to Go Back to search resultsBack to search results | 
Listed as The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2007, Unabridged, Com... in category:
Bread Crumb Link
 

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2007, Unabridged, Compact Disc) 

See original listing
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2007, Unabridged, Compact Disc)
Item Ended
Item condition:Very Good
Ended:Feb 17, 201213:18:29 PST
Price:US $9.99
Shipping:
$3.59 USPS First Class Package
Item location:Gardena, California, United States
Seller:
Member id mariacif360 ( Feedback Score Of 6448Green star icon for feedback score in between 5,000 to 9,999) |Seller's other items

More chances to get what you want

Feedback on our suggestions

More from the same seller

Feedback on our suggestions

Description

Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.Item number: 170766745650
Last updated on Jan 19, 2012 08:41:04 PST View all revisions

Item specifics

Condition:
Very Good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewel case or item cover, no ... Read moreabout the condition
Title: Lovely BonesThe
Publication Year: 2007Subject: FICTION, Fiction Themes, Literary Criticism
Edition Description: UnabridgedTopic: Family & Friendship, Human Qualities & Behavior, Mystery, Legal Thriller, Literary Criticism, Literary, Religious, Inspirational, General, Psychology, Literary Genres & Types of Novels
Language: EnglishAuthor: Alice Sebold
ISBN-10: 1600240682Format: Audio
ISBN-13: 9781600240683Publisher: Hachette Audio

Detailed item info

Synopsis
Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a kid in heaven. Alice Sebold's novel, which draws on some of her own experiences, became a runaway best-seller as soon as it was published. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Key Details
Author:Alice Sebold
Language:English
Publisher:Hachette Audio
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:1600240682
ISBN-13:9781600240683

Additional Details
Edition Description:Unabridged

Size
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

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 swing sets.

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 novelist, the author narrates the THE LOVELY BONES through the eyes of her winning young heroine. This story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching story about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.

Industry Reviews
"I asked myself, as I read THE LOVELY BONES, what could be the point of having the dead girl narrate the aftermath of her death--what, in other words, this voice could achieve that a standard omniscient narrator couldn't--and it occurred to me that the answer is that Susie is there to provide comfort: not to those who survive her, to whom she can't really make herself known or felt, but to the audience. The real point of Sebold's novel isn't to make you confront dreadful things, but, if anything, to assure you that they have no really permanent consequences....In its proleptic yearning for relief, and indeed in its emphasis on the bathetic appeal of victimhood, its pseudo-therapeutic lingo of healing and insistence that everything is really OK, that we needn't really be sad, that nothing is, in the end, really scary, Sebold's book is indeed timely...."
New York Review of Books - Daniel Mendelsohn (01/16/2002)

"The book's conceit, that Susie lives watchfully on, is also the book's deceit. THE LOVELY BONES aims to be, in the end, a feel-good book about rape, torture and murder, and while such an unlikely achievement is remarkable, it is also unsettling in ways that Sebold does not begin to address....The idea of an epidemic of children being snatched by their neighbors amounts to a fantasy...: it's chilling, thrilling and completely unbuttressed by fact. THE LOVELY BONES endows that fantasy with a happy ending. Cuteness, it turns out, is immortal. This is not only untrue; it's distasteful. For all Sebold's deftness, her novel plays into US culture's saccharine sensibility about girls and violence, a sensibility that attends the appetite for horror and is inseparable from it."
London Review of Books - Rebecca Mead (10/03/2002)

"What might play as a sentimental melodrama in the hands of a lesser writer becomes in this volume a keenly observed portrait of familial love and how it endures and changes over time. The novel is an elegy...about a vanished place and time and the loss of childhood innocence. And it is also a deeply affecting meditation on the ways in which terrible pain and loss can be redeemed...through love and acceptance....[Some] lapses do not diminish Ms. Sebold's achievements: the ability to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, the banal and the horrific, in lyrical, unsentimental prose; her instinctive understanding of the mathematics of love between parents and children; her gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (06/18/2002)

"An extraordinary, almost-successful debut that treats sensational material with literary grace....[M]ostly mesmerizing and deserving of the attention it's sure to receive."
Kirkus Reviews (05/01/2002)

Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2012 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

mariacif360

Visit my eBay storemariacif360
  • THE LOVELY BONES
  • VERY GOOD
  • FREE FIRST CLASS SHIPPING UPGRADE
  • NEW SHIPPING SPECIAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS:
  • BUY ANY AMOUNT OF DVDS AND GET CHARGED ONE LOW RATE
  • BUY TWO, TEN, TWENTY, THIRTY DVDS WHATEVER AND PAY ONLY 3.99 SHIPPING
  • SHIPPING WILL BE MEDIA MAIL

    • You can be sure it is genuine and original.
    • All items out of the shrink wrap are tested to play from beginning to end. We ship on Business days only. Holidays not included.
    • Free First class upgrade and includes free tracking except for items over the limit of first class.
    • We guarantee all our game codes to work except ,on used games, online codes and all digital copy codes.
    • We accept MASTERCARD, VISA, DISCOVER, AMERICAN EXPRESS AND BANK DEBIT CARDS THROUGH PAY PAL
    • Please pay within four days. If you cannot pay in time contact us. We will extend the amount of time you have to pay.

    • "What does the condition mean?
      What is New condition? 
      New condition is a
brand new, but may
      have a remainder mark or slash over the upc
symbol and/or some slight shelf wear. Usually sealed in shrink wrap. The
      outside
gleams with newness.
      What is like new condition? 
      It is just
like new without the
      shrink wrap or packaging. The dvd many have only be used
once
      to test for quality. It is of gift quality
without
      the
      wrappings.
      What is Very Good condition?
       Very
Good
      condition is a typical
      used item. May have some slight wear and
possibly include previous owners name. The case may not
      be perfect. Do not expect it
to be gift quality most
      of the time. Unless otherwise
stated.
      What is Good condition?
      Good condition is our standard rating for many
used items. May have some wear and possibly include previous
owners
      name, some markings and/or is a former library item. Do not expect it to be
gift quality
      .What is
      Acceptable condition? 
      An item in
Acceptable condition is a used item that is not too pretty but
      functions. Is likely to
be a former library item or has many markings/notes/highlighting.
This is better than nothing, but
      NOT gift quality.
    • Email us anytime for comments, problems or suggestions. Hours are from: 9:30 A.M. TO 4:00. Monday to Friday. NOt including Holidays. P.M.P.S.T. All questions will be responded to as promptly as possible. We will answer within 48 hours. Our mission: create a great buying experience. ===================================================================

ShipSaver logo ShipSaver logo
ShipSaver
Back to search results | See More Details about "The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2007, Unabridged, Com..."Return to top