Autobiography of A Face - Brossura

Grealy, Lucy

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ISBN 10: 0413774740 ISBN 13: 9780413774743

Casa editrice: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

When it was first published in America in 1994, Autobiography of a Face heralded award-winning poet Lucy Grealy's emergence as one of the most compelling writers of her generation. At age nine the writer was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and had to have a large part of her jaw removed. Written with an unconquerable wit, Grealy's memoir recalls the repercussions of that event; endless reconstructive surgery, the profound emotional trauma of a disrupted adolescence, feelings of rejection and inadequacy in a society obsessed with physical perfection, and the consequences of her own desperate need to be loved. Robbed of her outward beauty as a child, Lucy Grealy turned her tragic misfortune into a book of tremendous lyrical resonance, and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0413774740
• ISBN 13: 9780413774743
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224