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050 00 $aRD661.G74$bA3 1994
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100 1 $aGrealy, Lucy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94030795
245 10 $aAutobiography of a face /$cLucy Grealy.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c1994.
263 $a9409
300 $a223 pages ;$c21 cm
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520 $aLucy 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.
520 8 $aLater she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out.
520 8 $a. 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.
600 10 $aGrealy, Lucy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94030795
650 0 $aEwing's sarcoma$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aDisfigured persons$zUnited States$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hRD661.G74$iA3 1994