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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
Book Information
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
BindingKindle Edition (12 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages223
ISBN-10B004H1UEO0
Publication Date09/27/1994
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About Lucy Grealy (Author) : Lucy Grealy is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Lucy Grealy include Autobiography of A Face, Black Beauty.
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