Autobiography of a Face
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060569662 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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. "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. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life
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 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
Andrea J. Stonebraker said Autobiography of a Face Review. 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 afterward. The doctors diagnosed her tooth primarily. Once t. The best true story I've ever read 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 duckling to beautiful swan transformation. It's just on. "Five Stars" according to Jill Matthis. I loved the autobiography. Well written and it kept me engrossed.