![]() ![]() Her discovery that true beauty lies within makes this a wise and healing book. 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. 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. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a. ![]() Buy with confidence Book is in new, never-used condition. LUCY GREALY (1963-2002), an award-winning poet, attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop. ![]() ![]() 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. Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy Published by Harper Perennial (2003) ISBN 10: 0060569662 ISBN 13: 9780060569662 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Books Unplugged (Amherst, NY, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. ![]()
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