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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, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching story about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.
- Sales Rank: #12916 in Books
- Brand: Back Bay Books
- Published on: 2004-04-20
- Released on: 2004-04-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
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Amazon.com Review
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons
Look Inside the Motion Picture The Lovely Bones (Paramount, 2010)
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Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon
Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon
Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon
Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Director Peter Jackson
From Publishers Weekly
Sebold's first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. The novel begins swiftly. In the second sentence, Sebold's narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains this delicate balance between homely and horrid as she depicts the progress of grief for Susie's family and friends. She captures the odd alliances forged and the relationships ruined: the shattered father who buries his sadness trying to gather evidence, the mother who escapes "her ruined heart, in merciful adultery." At the same time, Sebold brings to life an entire suburban community, from the mortician's son to the handsome biker dropout who quietly helps investigate Susie's murder. Much as this novel is about "the lovely bones" growing around Susie's absence, it is also full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights. Sebold's most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie's heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one. It might be this that gives Sebold's novel its special flavor, for in Susie's every observation and memory of the smell of skunk or the touch of spider webs is the reminder that life is sweet and funny and surprising.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-"I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973," says Susie Salmon in this intriguing novel. Teens will immediately be drawn into this account of a girl who was raped and killed, and tells her story from "heaven." She realizes gradually that she is in an interim heaven until she can let go of her earthly concerns. The place is like school with Seventeen for a textbook and no teachers. On Earth, her mother needs to leave the family for a time, her sister seems to have Susie constantly in her thoughts, her young brother grows into a pensive preteen, and her grief-stricken father spends much of his time seeking out the murderer, even after it seems that the police have given up. The narrator observes the disparate ways her family and friends cope, and finally sees that they are resolving their grief as "the lovely bones" of their lives knit themselves around the empty space that was her life. While the subject matter is grim, the telling is light and frequently humorous-Susie remains 14 even though 8 years pass in the other characters' lives. This novel will encourage discussion. There is a slight feeling of magical realism, but there is grounding in real adolescence.
Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Fiction doesn't get any better than this - one of the top novels I've ever read.
By HT
I wish that Amazon would let us give one book a year a sixth star to denote how special that book is; this is that book this year, this decade. This book is good, real good, Lonesome Dove good, Terms of Endearment good.
This review has spoilers - don't read the review - just go read the book.
Susie Salmon is, was, a fourteen year old girl who was raped, murdered, and dismembered just before Christmas 1973 - that is not a plot spoiler, it is the first sentence of the book. Susie is telling her story from her heaven - everyone has their own heaven. She tells the story of her murder; she watches her murderer; she watches her family and friends.
This novel is the story of those people she watches and the effect that her death has on others. When someone asks Susie's mother what her daughter's name was she responds "'Susie', my mother said, bracing up under the weight of it a weight that she naively hoped might lighten someday, not knowing that it would only go on to hurt in new and varied ways for the rest of her life." [p 3] We see these changes as they continue to have different effects on everyone she knew. Watching her parents she sees that "[f]or three nights he hadn't known how to touch my mother or what to say. Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength."[p 16]
A second story line is the search for Susie's killer - Mr Harvey - who for most of the novel is hiding in plain sight. Her father has suspicions but the police can not act on them, so Susie's sister breaks into the house trying to help. Here we see the two story lines weave together; identifying the killer might provide some closure: "She knew that our father had walked into the cornfield possessed by something that was creeping into her now. She had wanted to bring back clues he could use as rungs to climb back to her on, to anchor him with facts, to ballast his sentences to Len [police detective]. Instead she saw herself falling after him into a bottomless pit." [p 176].
The third story line is Susie's coming to grip with her heaven and how she can move on. "I did begin to wonder what the word heaven meant.I thought, if this were heaven, truly heaven, it would be where my grandparents lived... 'You can have that,' Franny [Susie's heaven advisor] said to me. 'Plenty of people do.' 'How to you make the switch?'I asked. 'It's not as easy as you might think' she said. 'You have to stop desiring certain answers.' 'I don't get it.' 'If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling.' she said, 'you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.' This seemed impossible to me." [p 116] She slowly learns to let go but is still connected "I could trace how one thing - my death - connected these images to a single source. Now one could have predicted how my loss would change small moments on earth. But I held on to those moments, hoarded them. None of them were lost as long as I was watching." [p 226]
This magnificent novel takes a horrific murder and shows the pain and grief it causes and the changes it has on her family and her friends. In the final part of the novel we see if she can pull away in order to let her family grow and move on, without forgetting. How can the family move on without real closure on Susie's death? And we finally see the meaning of the title "the lovely bones" pulls it all together. We also watch her killer move on through his life.
Susie tells her story in simple declarative statements - like a 14 year old girl; it is wonderful how rich a story of relationships and desire can be told through this mechanism.
The author, Alice Sebold, was a rape victim in college and wrote about it in her book "Lucky" - the title is the term the detective used to explain that the rape could have been worse, the rapist normally killed his victims. So obviously this story has that layer of truth behind it.
Are these family relations really what it is like when a young child is killed? I don't know; it seams true, but I don't know. I know three families - good college friends all - who have lost a child. I see the hardship from the outside but can't really imagine the difficulty in their lives; I can't come close to understanding it. But because of Ms Sebold's experience I don't think this novel is gratuitous - I can imagine it could be true - not real (factual), but true. That is the highest praise fiction can receive.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Very good, have recommended to others.
By Amazon Customer
I lost my friend, who was also only 14 years old, only 7 months before I got this book. It helped a lot to read this and imagine her looking down on our lives in the same was Susie did for her friends and family. It brought forward a lot of emotions I had about my friend's death, but I feel like I got more of a closure almost after reading this book. While she wasn't murdered like Susie was and took her own life, she didn't leave a note or tell anyone and we were all left wondering what her final thoughts were and if there would have been anything we could have done if we had known to prevent it. While you can never quite capture the grief of losing someone that young, Alice Sebold does much better than many other authors. I couldn't put the book down and never wanted it to end, as it brought a feeling of comfort to me.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Very deep look at a monstrous crime
By calvinnme
I just finished reading the book. The crime against the author happened in 1981, before DNA evidence made such stranger rape convictions slam dunk. I was 23 in 1981 - these were MODERN times - and yet she was treated monstrously by people - like some kind of freak. Rape was more common in 1981 than it is today, yet the things people said to her! . Two things stuck out. WHY, since her family was a secular rather than a religious church going family, would her parents tell her pastor who then announces it to the entire congregation???? Second, WHY would her mom's therapist, when Alice went to her first session start out by saying "I guess you won't be so hung up by sex from now on will you?". That was Alice's first and last session with that creep who was, by the way ANOTHER WOMAN in her 30s who should know better and knew that Alice was a virgin before her rape. This is highly powerful writing and I strongly recommend the book.
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