At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author’s face, childhood, and the rest of her life. OL21275214W Page_number_confidence 85.77 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220310151131 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 384 Scandate 20220307174344 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780544837393 Tts_version 4. It is impossible to read Autobiography of a Face without having your consciousness raised forever. She lived in the UK and in Germany but spent most of her life in New York, where she grew up, and where she died in 2002. 'Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of own wit and style and class.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:08:06 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40391416 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Lucy Grealy, an award-winning poet, was born in Ireland in 1963. 'Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of own wit and style and class.'- Washington Post Book World 'This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable.' - New York Times

She captures what it is like as a child and a 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.

In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit.

It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author's face, childhood, and the rest of her life.Īt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer.

Autobiography of a face by lucy grealy