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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)

The Lovely Bones Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

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Title	:	The Lovely Bones
Author	:	Alice Sebold
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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This is a fine novella which some enterprising editor persuaded Sebold to transform into a novel. And the novel is not a good one, featuring unbelievable twists and turns and a super creepy ending (but not super creepy in a good way) reminiscent of the movie "Ghost." My advice: read the first third and stop. If I had done that, I might have given it four stars.

The moment I finished The Lovely Bones, I let out a long, slow and heavy breath.Because that was some damn satisfying ending.I strongly believe that if you go into this book thinking it will be creepy, scary, mysterious, fast-paced and full of shocking revelations, you will be tempted to put it aside after the first sixty pages. Its not only about the pedophilia, rape or murder. Its not only about catching the killer. And its definitely not only about punishing Mr. Harvey for what he did.The

The Lovely Bones has got to be the most baffling, poorly written, jaw-droppingly bad book that I have ever set my eyes on. It is truly a black, black tragedy that the words in this book were placed in that particular order, published, and distributed. How could this have ever possibly been popular? Is it for the same reason that the song My Humps hit number one? I mean, I dont technically believe in burning books, but this novel really got me thinking. About burning it.If it serves any use at

Its a beautiful book

The greatest first 30 pages ever. The worst rest.Compare/contrast with The Shimmering Go-Between.

One book, two rapes. How's that for a bargain? (The book only advertises one.) Yuck.The book in question is Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. I'm not giving anything away by saying it's a book about a girl (the narrator) who was murdered. That's revealed in the book's second sentence. It's also not a big deal to let you know she was raped and murdered by a neighbour, George Harvey. That all is related pretty early on. What isn't revealed until maybe the last fifty pages is that the girl herself,

"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