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Another Novel From Alice Sebold Will Hit Stores This Fall
By M&C News Apr 16, 2007, 13:42 GMT
Alice Sebold, author of the 2002 novel The Lovely Bones, plans to release her second novel, The Almost Moon on October 16th from Little, Brown. The publisher plans to push galleys of the book at BookExpo America, where Sebold will be one of the featured speakers. The event will run in New York on May 31 through June 3.
Sebold is also the author of a memoir called Lucky, which deals with her personal experience of having been raped, a theme she deals with in The Lovely Bones, when her fourteen year old protagonist gets raped, then murdered by a neighbor as she spends the rest of the tale watching her family from heaven.
Sebold, despite her first novel’s commercial success, had novelist Joyce Carol Oates refer to the ending of The Lovely Bones similar to that of a “Hallmark Card”. Publisher Michael Pietsch, however, has described her work as “forceful” and something he has “tremendous faith in”. The Almost Moon deals with the tale of a woman who “crosses a terrible boundary” according to the description in Little Brown’s fall catalog. They
plan to run an initial print of 750,000 copies.
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