Autobiography of a Face - Couverture rigide

Grealy, Lucy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0395657806 ISBN 13 : 9780395657805

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1994

Synopsis

Book by Grealy Lucy

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and the Voice Literary Supplement A New York Times Notable Book "Despite its unblinking stare at an excrutiatingly painful subject, this is not a dour book. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image, about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful—or even pleasingly average—face. In the end, this tyranny is not so much overthrown as shrugged off."—New York Times Book Review  

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0395657806
• ISBN 13: 9780395657805
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 223