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

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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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This book says a lot about how our society reacts to "ugliness." It is about a woman who had cancer as a young girl. She beat it, but was left without a jaw on one side of her face. She says, "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

3.5★There is much said about this memoir from many POVs and my thoughts about it are complicated. As one reviewer pointed out the title says Autobiography of a Face and thats what it is. Hoping to find a more holistic view to other aspects of life in the aftermath of her childhood experience left me disappointed. She spends the majority of this book in those early years and quickly wraps it up after college. Like others I wondered how she could so clearly recall the details and memories from

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

this book knocked me for six (this, i'm told, is a cricket-based metaphor. the only other cricket-related sentence i know is "the sound of willow on leather," which english expats like simon use with a quiver in their voices. this has absolutely nothing to do with this review). lucy grealy writes about her experience with a severely crippling childhood cancer which, besides putting her through years of chemo and radiation therapy with accompanying nausea, pain, terror, ill-being, baldness, and

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



A beautifully written memoir about the late Grealy's struggle with childhood cancer leading to many, many reconstructive surgeries over 20 years. She tells her story with wit and perspective which seems improbable given what she went through. The treatments sound pretty primative now. I recommend resisting the urge to follow this up with Ann Patchett's about Grealy after she died. Patchett reveals a lot about Grealy and I wished I could have un-read these details and returned to the stronger,