03032cam a2200361 4500 525435486 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547524122 0547524129 B004H1UEO0 Amazon ce895bd8-b645-4ba0-a32a-5bf1700a03a7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 573158 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face [Libby]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2512kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author's face, childhood, and the rest of her life.</b><br /> At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a 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.</p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book<br /> "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." —<i>New York Times</i><br /> "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."—<i>Washington Post Book World</i></b>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/CE8/95B/D8/AutobiographyofaFace9780547524122.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CE895BD8-B645-4BA0-A32A-5BF1700A03A7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/CE8/95B/D8/AutobiographyofaFace9780547524122.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CE895BD8-B645-4BA0-A32A-5BF1700A03A7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/CE8/95B/D8/AutobiographyofaFace9780547524122.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CE895BD8-B645-4BA0-A32A-5BF1700A03A7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)