TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grealy,Lucy
TI  - Autobiography of a face
SN  - 9780544837393
AV  - RD661.G74 A3 2016
U1  - 362.19699/47160092B 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Grealy, Lucy
KW  - Ewing's sarcoma
KW  - Patients
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Disfigured persons
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -