Autobiography of a Face (Paperback: Perennial: 256 pages)
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Product Details: Autobiography of a Face
| Author: | Ludy Grealy, Lucy Grealy |
| Afterword by: | Ann Patchett |
| Format: | Paperback: Perennial: 256 pages. |
| Publisher: | Perennial (03/01/2003) |
| ISBN: | 0060569662 |
| ISBN13: | 9780060569662 |
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Pro Reviews: Autobiography of a Face
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE struggles from outer to inner to inmost senses of 'face' as it charts the difficulties encountered in trying to carve a face for oneself from the inside out. It's a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable.
Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style and class.
Publisher Notes: Autobiography of a Face
- ""I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.""
At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
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