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- catalog abstract ""Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy 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 surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special. Later she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out. This memoir arrives at a time when the worship of beauty in our culture is at an all-time high, a time when more and more women seek physical perfection. Lucy Grealy awakens in us the difficult truth that beauty, finally, is to be found deep within."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6538126.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy 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 surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special. Later she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out. This memoir arrives at a time when the worship of beauty in our culture is at an all-time high, a time when more and more women seek physical perfection. Lucy Grealy awakens in us the difficult truth that beauty, finally, is to be found deep within."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0395657806 (recycled paper) :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "362.1/96994716/0092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Adaptation, Psychological Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "Adaptation, Psychological Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Body Image Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "Body Image Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Disfigured persons United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Ewing's sarcoma Patients United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Grealy, Lucy.".
- catalog subject "Jaw Neoplasms psychology Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "Jaw Neoplasms psychology Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "RD661.G74 A3 1994".
- catalog subject "Sarcoma, Ewing's Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "Sarcoma, Ewing's Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "WE 258 G786a 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors.".
- catalog title "Autobiography of a face / Lucy Grealy.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".