Autobiography of a Face
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Book Description
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 t... More
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Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Binding | Kindle Edition (12 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 223 |
ISBN-10 | B004H1UEO0 |
Publication Date | 09/27/1994 |
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