Autobiography of a Face
Author(s): Lucy Grealy
Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- : Harcourt Children's Books
- : 0.272
- : September 2016
- : 201mm X 132mm X 18mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lucy Grealy
- : Paperback
- : 1609
- : English
- : 362.19699471
- : 256
- : black & white illustrations