The almost moon

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Alice Sebold: The almost moon (2007)

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2007

ISBN:
978-0-316-67746-2
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The Almost Moon is the third book and the second novel by the American author Alice Sebold, author of the memoir, Lucky and the best-selling novel The Lovely Bones. The Almost Moon was released by Little, Brown and Company in the United States on October 16, 2007.

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An uncomfortable book to read

Our friend Marta passed on her copy of The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold to us. A bizarre story which is very different from Sebold's debut novel, The Lovely Bones, I can understand why there are such widely varying reviews of The Almost Moon. This isn't a comfortable book to read. It confronts some of the worst of human behaviour in a way that doesn't allow readers to shrink away from what these characters are doing and have done. Moreover, I don't think that anyone is likeable. On the first page we witness Helen murdering her elderly helpless mother and the shock of such a powerful start reverberates through the following twenty-four hours of story.

Both Dave and I have read The Almost Moon and, I believe, have pretty similar views. We loved the actual writing throughout the novel. The prose isn't always grammatically perfect, but it flows at a …