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* Read ! Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy â eBook or Kindle ePUB. Autobiography of a Face 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
| Title | : | Autobiography of a Face |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544837398 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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.
Autobiography of a Face Review Andrea J. Stonebraker Lucy Grealy tells a beautiful story in the autobiography titled Autobiography of a Face. The story begins positively with Lucy's migration from Ireland to the United States with her parents and two obnoxious brothers. Her brother's were disgusted with the American culture while Lucy embraced it. Life seemed to be going extremely well for Lucy until one day at recess. She collided with another student in the middle of recess. She experienced constant excruciating pain in her mouth afterw. The best true story I've ever read A Customer I think about this book nearly every day, even though I read it several years ago. It has had a profound impact on my own life. It is a real-life story about a young girl growing up with jaw bone cancer and having to live with multiple surgeries and radiation to try to rid her jaw of cancer. During and after the disfiguring surgeries and radiation, she has difficulties adjusting to society's taunts and stares, beginning with her schoolmates and continuing with adults. There is no ugly d. Five Stars Jill Matthis I loved the autobiography. Well written and it kept me engrossed.
Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasure of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and 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 strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. At
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