RADIO: Lovely Bones Author Alice Sebold interviewed on Fresh Air from WHYY
To celebrate the release of the film adaptation of Lovely Bones NPR's Fresh Air rebroadcast in interview terry Gross did with Alice Sebold. The best part of the interview was when Gross asked Sebold about her writing process and the difference between therapeutic writing and professional writing (as Sebold was herself a victim of rape). They followed this interview with an unenthusiastic review of the new film adaptation:
December 11, 2009
Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones sold over a million copies when it was released in 2002. This week, the book returns to the spotlight in a film adaptation by Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Lovely Bones centers on the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Sebold is not an author to shy away from tough topics. One of the first lines of the novel would qualify, in most stories, as a spoiler: "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie clings to her earthly life while trying to accept her death, and she narrates her story from beyond the grave, watching her family struggle with grief and her murderer evade detection.
This interview was originally broadcast July 10, 2002.
To listen to full interview online: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121292327#1212...
To listen to DAVID EDELSTEIN's Review of the film, "Jackson's 'Bones': The Furthest Thing From Lovely" visit :http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121339862&...
December 11, 2009
Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones sold over a million copies when it was released in 2002. This week, the book returns to the spotlight in a film adaptation by Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Lovely Bones centers on the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Sebold is not an author to shy away from tough topics. One of the first lines of the novel would qualify, in most stories, as a spoiler: "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie clings to her earthly life while trying to accept her death, and she narrates her story from beyond the grave, watching her family struggle with grief and her murderer evade detection.
This interview was originally broadcast July 10, 2002.
To listen to full interview online: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121292327#1212...
To listen to DAVID EDELSTEIN's Review of the film, "Jackson's 'Bones': The Furthest Thing From Lovely" visit :http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121339862&...
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