Autobiography of a Face

Author(s): Lucy Grealy

Biography

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

  • : 9780544837393
  • : 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