Autobiography of a face ebook

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By Lucy Grealy

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. is a striking meditation on the distorting effects of our culture's preoccupation with physical beauty" (Publishers Weekly).
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 the paralyzing fear of never being loved.
"This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable."??—??New York Times
"Engaging and engrossi Autobiography of a Face - ROJ