MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01892cam a22003014a 4500
001 2006012555
003 DLC
005 20081231073058.0
008 060414s2007 nyu 000 0aeng
010 $a 2006012555
020 $a1596912561
020 $a9781596912564
035 $a(OCoLC)67383710
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQM117$b.R37 2007
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm67383710
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100 1 $aRapp, Emily.
245 10 $aPoster child :$ba memoir /$cEmily Rapp.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,$c2007.
300 $a229 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $aEmily Rapp was born with a birth defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations and had lost her entire leg from just above the knee. She had also become the smiling, always perky, indefatigable poster child for the March of Dimes, and spent much of her childhood traveling around Wyoming making appearances and giving pep talks. All the while she was learning to live with what she later called "my grievous, irrevocable flaw." This is Rapp's brutally honest and often darkly humorous account of wrestling with the tyranny of self-image as a teenager and then ultimately coming to terms with her own body as a young woman. It's about what it's like to live inside a broken body in a society that values beauty above almost everything else.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aRapp, Emily.
650 0 $aFemur$xAbnormalities$xPatients$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006012555-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006012555-d.html