Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, October 2011
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0857207113
ISBN-13: 9780857207111
Description
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido.
Dugard's memoir, is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
Dugard's memoir, is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
"This little memoir...was written plainly and simply by Dugard herself, without the help of a ghostwriter. And in that, it is powerful beyond its voyeurism…reading the experience in her own words is a revelation."
-- The Washington Post
“Dugard’s inspirational story…is a firsthand testament to the resilience of the human spirit.”
-- USA Today
ReadingGroupGuides.com, November 5, 2011
...Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9781451629187 Publisher: Simon & Schuster "Ask yourself, 'What would you do to survive?'" When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, ...
Book Business, October 6, 2011
...authors and enter contests for free books. The first S&S Book Club event will be a discussion of Jaycee Dugard’s bestselling memoir A Stolen Life on Wednesday, October 12 from 1-4 pm EST. Readers and fans of the book can gather for a ...
Huffington Post, October 6, 2011
...person who I think has most changed the world of crime and justice during 2011. My hero is Jaycee Dugard. She was held as a sex slave, finally rescued and now instead of being withdrawn or bitter, she has embraced us all with details of her ...
Examiner.com, September 25, 2011
...The things that happened to Jaycee Dugard in the 18 years she was held captive are things that only live in nightmares for most of us. Taken on her walk to the school bus at age ...
Christian Post, September 23, 2011
...Jaycee Dugard is suing the U.S. government for not monitoring the sex offender who kidnapped her. Phillip Garrido, who was a registered sex offender at the time of Jaycees abduction ...
Westborough Patch, September 14, 2011
...from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. A Stolen Life: A Memoir, by Jaycee Dugard. In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother ...
Little Falls Evening Times, September 12, 2011
...It was just a little over two years ago that Jaycee Dugard was found alive in the backyard of the man who had abducted her 18 years previously. She was 11 when she was taken. Miraculously, that child had the spirit ...
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