![]() ![]() ![]() Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. ![]() When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison. ![]() It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. Lucy Grealy was a typical nine-year-old girl until a random playground accident revealed a deeper problem: she had a rare, usually fatal form of childhood cancer called Ewings sarcoma. I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. You can read this before Autobiography of a Face PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Autobiography of a Face written by Lucy Grealy which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy ![]()
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