It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. |t Autobiography of a face |b First Mariner Books edition. At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. Throughout Grealy’s accounts of her battle with cancer, bullies, and her self-esteem, readers get a raw, painful, yet incredibly relatable look into the elements that can contribute to self-image. |i Online version: |a Grealy, Lucy, author. Lucy Grealy struggles with defining her self-image in her autobiography, Autobiography of a Face. |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. Because this is actually an autobiographical sketch a part of Grealys life, the first person.

|a Disfigured persons |0 |z United States |0 |v Biography. The book is written in first person from a limited point of view. |a Ewing's sarcoma |0 |x Patients |0 |z United States |0 |v Biography. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved'- |c Provided by publisher. 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. |a '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 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.

|a Autobiography of a face / |c Lucy Grealy.

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