An edition of Truth & Beauty (2004)

Truth & Beauty

A Friendship

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An edition of Truth & Beauty (2004)

Truth & Beauty

A Friendship

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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined.This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
272

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Cover of: Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
April 5, 2005, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
April 5, 2005, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
November 2, 2004, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
May 11, 2004, HarperCollins
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
May 11, 2004, HarperCollins
in English

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The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
8.7 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weight
15 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9233671M
Internet Archive
truthbeauty00annp_0
ISBN 10
0060572140
ISBN 13
9780060572143
Library Thing
7353
Goodreads
508748

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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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