The Resource Autobiography of a face, Lucy Grealy
Autobiography of a face, Lucy Grealy
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- Summary
- 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. "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."
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 236 p.
- Contents
-
- Luck
- Petting zoo
- The Tao of laugh-in
- Fear itself
- Life on earth
- Door number two
- Masks
- Truth and beauty
- World of unknowing
- The habits of self-consciousness
- Cool
- Mirrors
- Isbn
- 9780060569662
- Label
- Autobiography of a face
- Title
- Autobiography of a face
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy Grealy
- Subject
-
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues
- Jaw Neoplasms -- psychology -- Personal Narratives
- Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- trueCoping in girls
- trueGrealy, Lucy
- trueGirls with disfigurements -- Biography
- trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Illness and Disease
- truePeople with cancer -- Biography
- Sarcoma, Ewing's -- Personal Narratives
- Body Image -- Personal Narratives
- Grealy, Lucy
- trueCancer -- Chemotherapy
- Adaptation, Psychological -- Personal Narratives
- Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. "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."
- Summary
- The author, who endured a severely disfiguring cancer in childhood, offers a meditation on the pain, and healing she has endured, searching through a culture obsessed with physical beauty for love, acceptance, and inner peace
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 1994.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 162337
- Cataloging source
- STA
- Dewey number
- 155.916
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RD661.G74
- LC item number
- A3 2003
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1110
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- abstracts summaries
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Autobiography of a face, Lucy Grealy
- Contents
- Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors
- Control code
- 2274998
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 236 p.
- Isbn
- 9780060569662
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm51874121
- (OCoLC)51874121
- Label
- Autobiography of a face, Lucy Grealy
- Contents
- Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors
- Control code
- 2274998
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 236 p.
- Isbn
- 9780060569662
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm51874121
- (OCoLC)51874121
Subject
- Adaptation, Psychological -- Personal Narratives
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Body Image -- Personal Narratives
- trueCancer -- Chemotherapy
- trueCoping in girls
- Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography
- Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- trueGirls with disfigurements -- Biography
- trueGrealy, Lucy
- Grealy, Lucy
- Jaw Neoplasms -- psychology -- Personal Narratives
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues
- truePeople with cancer -- Biography
- Sarcoma, Ewing's -- Personal Narratives
- trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Illness and Disease
Genre
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiography
- trueLife stories
- truePersonal Narratives
- trueScience Writing
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