Autobiography of a face / Lucy Grealy.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, 2016Copyright date: �1994Edition: First Mariner books editionDescription: xxii, 224 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780544837393
- 0544837398
- 362.19699/47160092 B 23
- RD661.G74 A3 2016
- WE 258
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362.1 SHI And the band played on : | 362.1 WIL REFUGE | 362.196 AMM Lethal decisions : | 362.196 GRE Autobiography of a face / | 362.196 WOR TRIGGERED: A MEMOIR OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER | 362.1968 TAY My stroke of insight : | 362.1969 PAT Truth & beauty : |
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"--
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