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Title	:	Autobiography of a Face
Author	:	Lucy Grealy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	March 18th 2003 by Harper Perennial (first published January 1st 1994)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures 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.

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Original Title:	Autobiography of a Face
ISBN:	0060569662 (ISBN13: 9780060569662)
Edition Language:	English

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At an early age, Lucy Grealy was found to have a rare form of cancer. It would define the rest of her life. A third of her jawbone was removed to try to stem the spread of this cancer. She endured two and a half years of chemotherapy and many subsequent years of radiation treatments. In addition, she had literally dozens of surgeries attempting to restore her face. Each time her body would eventually absorb transplanted material and sag back in on itself. Consider the garden-variety cruelty of

Lucy Grealys memoir AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE was met with wide critical and popular acclaim when published. The book is overrated in my opinion, and it provides a good test case for Vivian Gornicks concepts of the situation and the story. Every work of literature has both a situation and a story, Gornick writes in her book THE SITUATION AND THE STORY. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight,

Lucy Grealy was a poet, essayist, and autobiographer. She was born in Dublin in 1963 and her family immigrated to Spring Valley, New York, when she was four years old. Her father worked in television. Lucy was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received an MFA degree from the University of Iowa Creative Writing Program (the Writers Workshop). The crucial experience in Lucys life happened at age nine, when as a result of a playground accident to her jaw, she was diagnosed with Ewings

Wow! A truly touching story filled with so many little life lessons. A story that makes me cringe a little with guilt when I realize how good I have it yet how often I sometimes take my life for granted, my health for granted, my friends and family for granted... Ms. Grealy opened my eyes up to another world where she had every right to let life beat her down yet she continued to find strength and confidence and continued to somehow pull herself back up, hold her head high and continue to face

As seen in Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett, Lucy Grealy is a selfish spoiled girl. Her main concern in this book is not how to live with the disfigurement from cancer, but how to make people do things to make her happy. She learns to work the system to get what she wants. There's no great introspection in her story. She has no startling insights about life. She just goes along from surgery to surgery begging for attention and love while not giving anything back to others. The most interesting

Autobiography of a Face chronicles Lucy Grealy's battle with the physical and psychological effects of Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer that robbed her of much of her jaw. Grealy touches upon some of the more negative aspects of her ordeal, such as her need for attention and her tendency to blame all of her problems on her face, yet it is clear some of the tale is left untold. The writing itself is wonderful: flowing, elegant sentences filled with succinct vocabulary. Grealy and author Ann Patchett

This book, beautifully written, made me so sad, especially given that its author died tragically not even ten years after it was published, and her gifts didn't get to be shared with readers through many more works. At its crux is her childhood bout with Ewing's sarcoma, a deadly cancer that she survived but with a disfigured face that she then had to deal with as she grew up. I so wish that her dysfunctional parents had instilled and nurtured a deep-seated self-worth in Grealy, because it would