Lucky Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction and the methods she uses

and the methods she uses to win them over

The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months

From the well-known to the obscure

Discusses "Getting Stylish"--what to expect from a man who turns up the sleeves of a sports jacket--and "Lovers as Accessories"--matching her hair color with his slacks

Lucky Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction and the methods she usesIn a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen year old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends