shine through this remarkable book."-Madmoiselle "Though Grealy's experience was extraordinary, it is utterly affecting, for there is no one who has not felt the shame and self-doubt of physical inadequacy." - Elle "With fairy tale logic, as though to make up for her nearly unbearable fate, the gods also gave this young woman extraordinary gifts of perception and language. Despite the singular nature of her experience, Lucy Grealy manages to convince an amazing array of people that she is speaking directly to them."-Baltimore Sun "Wit, intelligence, and an unconquerable spirit. In the end, this tyranny is not so much overthrown as shrugged off."-New York Times Book Review "Written in a voice that is both compelling and insightful, Autobiography of a Face seems to mirror back to readers something relevant to their own lives. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image, about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful-or even pleasingly average-face. Selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and the Voice Literary Supplement A New York Times Notable Book "Despite its unblinking stare at an excrutiatingly painful subject, this is not a dour book. 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.
In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. 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.
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. A New York Times Notable Book "Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style and class."- Washington Post Book World "It is impossible to read Autobiography of a Face without having your consciousness raised forever." - Mirabella In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author's face, childhood, and the rest of her life.
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