Autobiography of a face

Resource Information

The work Autobiography of a face represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lawrence Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Autobiography of a face

Statement of responsibility

Lucy Grealy

Creator

• Grealy, Lucy

Author

• Grealy, Lucy

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
• Biography
• Disfigured persons
• Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography
• Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients
• Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Grealy, Lucy
• Grealy, Lucy -- Biography
• United States
• Grealy, Lucy
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"A New York Times Notable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable."--New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."--Washington Post Book World This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy 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 cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 362.19699/47160092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

RD661.G74

LC item number

A3 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

abstracts summaries