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Grealy, Lucy

Autobiography of a face / Lucy Grealy. - First Mariner books edition. - xxii, 224 pages ; 21 cm

Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors.

"A New York Times Notable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable."--New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."--Washington Post Book World This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved"--

ISBN: 9780544837393 0544837398

LCCN: 2016012768

Subjects--Personal Names:
Grealy, Lucy

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ewing's sarcoma--Patients--United States--Biography.
Disfigured persons--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: RD661.G74 / A3 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 362.19699/47160092 B

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WE 258 / G786a 2016