Autobiography of a Face

By - Lucy Grealy

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Mariner Books, Boston, 2016

ISBN 10 - 0544837398

ISBN 13 - 9780544837393

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Disfigured persons

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 362.1969 GRE

Physical Description - xxii, 224 pages ; 21 cm

Book Information

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.

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