Autobiography of a Face - Brossura

Grealy, Lucy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060569662 ISBN 13: 9780060569662

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2003

Riassunto

"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. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."

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. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. 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.

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Recensione:

“This is a young woman’s first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable.” (New York Times)

L'autore:

Lucy Grealy, an award-winning poet, was born in Ireland in 1963. She lived in the UK and in Germany but spent most of her life in New York, where she grew up, and where she died in 2002. She also published a collection of essays, As Seen on TV: Provocations.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060569662
• ISBN 13: 9780060569662
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226