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A Violation

by Charlotte Lamb

Published 1983313 pagesISBN 978-0-3739-7005-6

She had it all, conventional wisdom said -- a creative career in glamorous advertising and a handsome, upwardly mobile boyfriend. Yet the gnawing dissatisfaction Clare Forrester felt was pushing her to the crisis point. She had no answers, but she knew something had to change. Then fate intervened with a nightmare -- a senseless violent rape she was powerless to prevent. When time began again after that shocking moment, Clare's life and the lives of those closest to her were changed beyond belief. Values, friendships, family relations all were traumatically altered. And now the question was, could Clare rebuild any life at all from the shattered fragments of her self. And would the power of love heal the deepest wound a woman could know....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Nonfiction · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Urgent pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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LuminousDark

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read313 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1983
Primary categoryNonfictionAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3739-7005-6
Language
English
Edition record
OL10750968M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
  2. Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
  3. How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.