An edition of Autobiography of a Face (1994)

Autobiography of a face

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An edition of Autobiography of a Face (1994)

Autobiography of a face

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Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy 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 surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special.

Later she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out.

  1. This memoir arrives at a time when the worship of beauty in our culture is at an all-time high, a time when more and more women seek physical perfection. Lucy Grealy awakens in us the difficult truth that beauty, finally, is to be found deep within.
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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
223

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Sarcoma, Ewing's Body Image Disfigured persons Psychology Jaw Neoplasms Patients Psychological Adaptation Personal narratives Ewing's sarcoma Popular works Biography Cancer Self-esteem in adolescence United states, biography Ewing Sarcoma Maxillofacial Injuries Self Concept BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General Personal Memoirs POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Social Security Social Services & Welfare Zelfwaarneming Verminking Autobiography

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Lucy Grealy

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United States
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Cover of: Autobiography of A Face
Autobiography of A Face
September 30, 2004, Methuen
Cover of: Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face
July 2003, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face
March 18, 2003, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face
March 18, 2003, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: Autobiography of a face
Autobiography of a face
2003, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
Cover of: Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face
October 1999, Econo-Clad Books
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: Autobiography of a face
Autobiography of a face
1995, HarperPerennial
in English - 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Cover of: Autobiography of a face
Autobiography of a face
1994, Houghton Mifflin
in English

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Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1/96994716/0092, B
Library of Congress
RD661.G74 A3 1994, RD661.G74A3 1994, RD661.G74 A3 2016, RD661.G74 A3 1994eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 p. ;
Number of pages
223

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1090973M
Internet Archive
autobiographyoff00grea_0
ISBN 10
0395657806
LCCN
94015222, 2016012768
OCLC/WorldCat
30156226, 759581172, 932050785
LibraryThing
7270
Goodreads
826241

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3477605W

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Excerpts

KER-POW! I was knocked into the present, the unmistakable now, by Joni Friedman's head as it collided with the right side of my jaw.
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