KER-POW! I was knocked into the present, the unmistakable now, by Joni Friedman's head as it collided with the right side of my jaw.
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Autobiography of a face
by Lucy Grealy
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Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special.
Later she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out.
- This memoir arrives at a time when the worship of beauty in our culture is at an all-time high, a time when more and more women seek physical perfection. Lucy Grealy awakens in us the difficult truth that beauty, finally, is to be found deep within.
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Sarcoma, Ewing's, Body Image, Disfigured persons, Psychology, Jaw Neoplasms, Patients, Psychological Adaptation, Personal narratives, Ewing's sarcoma, Popular works, Biography, Cancer, Self-esteem in adolescence, United states, biography, Ewing Sarcoma, Maxillofacial Injuries, Self Concept, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, General, Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Social Security, Social Services & Welfare, Zelfwaarneming, VerminkingPeople
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Autobiography of a Face
March 18, 2003, Harper Perennial
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in English
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Autobiography of a Face
July 2003, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
0613648390 9780613648394
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Autobiography of a Face
October 1999, Econo-Clad Books
School & Library Binding
in English
0613124723 9780613124720
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Autobiography of a face
1995, HarperPerennial
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