![]() 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. Her discovery that true beauty lies within makes this a wise and healing book. In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author’s face, childhood, and the rest of her life. ![]() ![]() No longer eligible for medical coverage, she moved to London to take advantage of Britain's socialized medicine, and underwent a 13-hour operation in Scotland. During graduate school at the University of Iowa, she had a series of unsatisfying sexual affairs, hoping to prove she was lovable. At Sarah Lawrence College in the mid-1980s, she discovered poetry as a vehicle for her pent-up emotions. Extremely self-conscious and shy, Grealy endured insults and ostracism as a teenager in Spring Valley, N.Y. Autobiography of a Face by Ann Patchett 27,107 ratings, 3. This harrowing, lyrical autobiographical memoir, which grew out of an award-winning article published in Harper's in 1993, is a striking meditation on the distorting effects of our culture's preoccupation with physical beauty. ![]() Diagnosed at age nine with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer that severely disfigured her face, Grealy lost half her jaw, recovered after two and half years of chemotherapy and radiation, then underwent plastic surgery over the next 20 years to reconstruct her jaw. ![]()
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