Anthony Broadwater (Alice Sebold and Lucky)

New York: The rape took place in a Syracuse, New York, park in 1981 and was described in raw detail in a memoir published nearly 20 years after it occurred, as the man convicted of the crime struggled to rebuild his life after his release from prison.

The book, titled Lucky, launched the career of author Alice Sebold, who later rose to international fame with The Lovely Bones, a novel that also centres on sexual assault and sold...

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