Autobiography of A Face - Couverture souple

Grealy, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413774740 ISBN 13 : 9780413774743

Editeur : Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004

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: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0413774740
• ISBN 13: 9780413774743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224