Have you ever heard of a book called??

Question

Lovely Bones By: Alice Sebold

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I have never heard of a book called "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. :)♥

Answer 3

Is it the story told by a young girl who was murdered?
If so, that was a grand book - but I've only read it once and
can not remember the whole story. I think it's called???
These lovely bones???
Try going to the Barnes & Nobles website and ask for the author.
Good Luck!

Answer 4

The Lovely Bones was on the NY Best Seller list for over a year.
How could anyone not have heard about it!
It has to do with the murder of a young girl and her spirit looking down on her family.

Answer 5

Never heard of it
http://www.mostlyfiction.com/contemp/sebold.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Lovely-Bones-Novel-Alice-Sebold/dp/0316666343

review/ synapsis
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/lovely_bones1.asp

chapter exerpt:
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books/28/0316166685/chapter_excerpt23486.html

Answer 6

No, not until now. It sounds like it is a very good novel. I will have to get hold of a copy. Thank You.

Answer 7

Sounds familliar. I might have read it along time a go. I'm not really sure.

Answer 8

Yeppers, Read some of it = D

Answer 9

Yes. I've read it. It was a good read

Answer 10

nope